Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
- 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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
- Theodore Roosevelt
Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
- Theodore Roosevelt