Theodore Roosevelt: Trending quotes (page 12)

“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.”

“the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”

“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

“We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“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!”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”