Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Theodore Roosevelt
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. – Theodore Roosevelt
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. – Theodore Roosevelt
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. – Theodore Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. – Theodore Roosevelt
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. – Theodore Roosevelt
With self-discipline most anything is possible. – 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
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – 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
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
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. – Theodore Roosevelt
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 thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. – Theodore Roosevelt
The government is us we are the government, you and I. – Theodore Roosevelt
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
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. – Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt
