Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
- Theodore Roosevelt
For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
- Theodore Roosevelt
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
- Theodore Roosevelt
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
- Theodore Roosevelt