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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the 26th President of the United States and one of the most dynamic leaders in American history. A soldier, naturalist, author, and reformer, Roosevelt championed conservation, consumer protection, and the "strenuous life." He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational

All Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

History

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Death

“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Best

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom

“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Best

“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Peace

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Courage

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Car

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Age

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Society

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Government

“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics