Famous Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

I feel like a Bull Moose. - Theodore Roosevelt,
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- 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