Best Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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!

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

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.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic - the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

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

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.