Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
- Theodore Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
- Theodore Roosevelt
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
- Theodore Roosevelt