Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

To waste and destroy our natural resources to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

No man is above the law and no man is below it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self restraint to keep from meddling while they do it.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads and the boss drives.

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed

It is better to be faithful than famous.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

In the Grand Canyon Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

You could no more make an agreement with them than you could nail currant jelly to a wall...and the failure to nail currant jelly to a wall is not due to the nail; it is due to the currant jelly.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Absence and death are the same “ only that in death there is no suffering.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind but great actions speak to all mankind.

Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Let us remember that as much has been given us much will be expected from us and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it

You cant choose your potential but you can choose to fulfill it.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Character in the long run is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Believe you can and youre halfway there.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

Knowing whats right doesnt mean much unless you do whats right.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance fortitude prudence justice brotherly love relief and truth but liberty equality and fraternity and it denounces ignorance superstition bigotry lust tyranny and despotism.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Our flag is a proud flag and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated there must be no return to tyranny.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

All daring and courage all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer nobler type of manhood

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.