Top 82 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.