Inspiring Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt - Page 2

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience"

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency"

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name"

"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"

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife"

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants"

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I"

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

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft"

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"

"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved"

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues"

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life"

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort"

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time"

"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"

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

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

"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body"

"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past"

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison"