Explore Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law._x000D__x000D_A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection._x000D__x000D_A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

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.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.