Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country

and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor.

This is an era of organization.

Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Leave it as it is.

The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Old age is like everything else.

To make a success of it,

you've got to start young.

Big jobs usually go to the men

who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Never throughout history has a man

who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth

is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves

when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep

into our own natures.

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.

Character, in the long run,

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

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

I am only an average man but, by George,

I work harder at it than the average man.

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

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him.

I pity the creature who does not work,

at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Absence and death are the same

only that in death there is no suffering.

When you play,

play hard;

when you work,

don't play at all.

I care not what others think of what I do,

but I care very much about what I think of what I do!

That is character!

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided;

but never hit softly.

A vote is like a rifle;

its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.