Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

Men, Small, Big

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

Age, Success, Everything

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, Poor

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Children, Leave, Name

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt

Humanity, Country, Traitor

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

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

Heart, Quality, Head

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

Politics, Decency, Practical

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

Moment, Become, Action

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

Life, History, Worth

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

Peace, Far, Rule

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Movement, Reform, Lunatic

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

Work, Harder, Average

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Live, Higher

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

Attitude, Dead, Willing

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

Freedom, Past, Effort

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

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

Evil, Ground, Expedience

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

Work, Hard, Play

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

Successful, Thinking, Often

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

Crime, Hit, Soft

I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore Roosevelt

Everything, Read

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

While, Congress, Goes

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

Work, Leave, Ages

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 27, 1858

Died: January 6, 1919

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