Theodore Roosevelt quotes.

“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.”

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.”

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

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

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

“The greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

“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.”

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

“Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”

“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”

“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.”

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

“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

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

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

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”