Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

American statesman

Lived from: 1858 - 1919

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 october 1858 Died: 6 january 1919

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

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  • A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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  • Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
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  • It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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  • Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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  • The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • All the resources we need are in the mind
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  • At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
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  • Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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  • Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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  • Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.
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  • Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
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  • Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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  • Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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  • 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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  • 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.
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  • Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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  • Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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What are the most famous quotes from Theodore Roosevelt?

The two most famous quotes from Theodore Roosevelt are:

  • "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
  • "Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world."

When did Theodore Roosevelt live?

Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858 and died in the year 1919.