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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.

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Time

All Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Society

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Courage

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics

“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

“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams

“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Attitude

“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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“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

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Good

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Failure

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Best