Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate;

and while the debate goes on,

the canal does also.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.

The leader leads,

and the boss drives.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort,

by grim energy and resolute courage,

that we move on to better things.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned

an invisible government owing no allegiance

and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required

within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Speak softly and carry a big stick;

you will go far.

The only man who never makes a mistake

is the man who never does anything.

With self

discipline most anything is possible.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants

responsible for most of your trouble,

you wouldn't sit for a month.

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.

Far and away the best prize

that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Keep your eyes on the stars,

and your feet on the ground.

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

Nobody cares how much you know,

until they know how much you care.