Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotations

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

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

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

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

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

I do. That is character!

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.