110+ Theodore Roosevelt Quotes On Imperialism, Nature And Conservation

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He was a prominent leader of the Republican Party and a driving force behind the Progressive Era in the United States. He is known for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Theodore Roosevelt on leadership, imperialism, nature.

Top 10 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

1. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
2. Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
3. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
4. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
5. When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
6. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
7. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
8. At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
9. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
10. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt Short Quotes

• Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
• Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
• Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
• There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
• Comparison is the thief of joy.
• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
• Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Leadership

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. — Theodore Roosevelt

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — Theodore Roosevelt

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. — Theodore Roosevelt

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor. — Theodore Roosevelt

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily. — Theodore Roosevelt

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress. — Theodore Roosevelt

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Nature

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. — Theodore Roosevelt

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. — Theodore Roosevelt

The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. — Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. — Theodore Roosevelt

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. — Theodore Roosevelt

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. — Theodore Roosevelt

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. — Theodore Roosevelt

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Conservation

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things. — Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. — Theodore Roosevelt

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. — Theodore Roosevelt

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others. — Theodore Roosevelt

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. — Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. — Theodore Roosevelt

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. — Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Government

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt

These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. — Theodore Roosevelt

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal. — Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I. — Theodore Roosevelt

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse. — Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people. — Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. — Theodore Roosevelt

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Education

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Theodore Roosevelt

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. — Theodore Roosevelt

Then get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline, all things are possible — Theodore Roosevelt

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Work

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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. — Theodore Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. — Theodore Roosevelt

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night. — Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Love

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

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. — Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. — Theodore Roosevelt

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. — Theodore Roosevelt

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living. — Theodore Roosevelt

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Progressive

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. — Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. — Theodore Roosevelt

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Leader

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Life

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

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. — Theodore Roosevelt

I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest. — Theodore Roosevelt

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle. — Theodore Roosevelt

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. — Theodore Roosevelt

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. — Theodore Roosevelt

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy. — Theodore Roosevelt

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Nation

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. — Theodore Roosevelt

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. — Theodore Roosevelt

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. — Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. — Theodore Roosevelt

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. — Theodore Roosevelt

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About People

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool. — Theodore Roosevelt

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law. — Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. — Theodore Roosevelt

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. — Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. — Theodore Roosevelt

No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. — Theodore Roosevelt

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Hard

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. — Theodore Roosevelt

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy. — Theodore Roosevelt

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment. — Theodore Roosevelt

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do. — Theodore Roosevelt

There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will. — Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Famous Quotes And Sayings

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. — Theodore Roosevelt

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. — Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. — Theodore Roosevelt

Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic. — Theodore Roosevelt

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. — Theodore Roosevelt

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. — Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. — Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. — Theodore Roosevelt

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. — Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. — Theodore Roosevelt

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt

We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business. — Theodore Roosevelt

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. — Theodore Roosevelt

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. — Theodore Roosevelt

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. — Theodore Roosevelt

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. — Theodore Roosevelt

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to be faithful than famous. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything — Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings — Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. — Theodore Roosevelt

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! — Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. — Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

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. — Theodore Roosevelt

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition. — Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. — Theodore Roosevelt

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. — Theodore Roosevelt

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. — Theodore Roosevelt

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law. — Theodore Roosevelt

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. — Theodore Roosevelt

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. — Theodore Roosevelt

Life Lessons by Theodore Roosevelt

1. Theodore Roosevelt taught the importance of having a strong work ethic and never giving up on your goals. He worked hard to achieve his dreams and was not afraid to take risks in order to make them a reality.
2. He also emphasized the importance of having a positive attitude and believing in yourself. He believed that no matter what obstacles you face, you can overcome them if you have the right mindset.
3. Lastly, Theodore Roosevelt showed the importance of being kind and compassionate to others. He believed that everyone should be treated with respect and kindness, no matter their background or beliefs.