“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” Theodore Roosevelt
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.” Theodore Roosevelt DoneGreatestNatureHarmWealthEnvy
“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.” Theodore Roosevelt BestDoneGood
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.” Theodore Roosevelt Love
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” Theodore Roosevelt KnowledgeLifeMistakeMotivational
“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 DefeatWin
“The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.” Theodore Roosevelt Time
“Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.” 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 Good
“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.” 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 LifeTime
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” Theodore Roosevelt Work
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.” Theodore Roosevelt DeathSufferingWisdomAbsence
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” Theodore Roosevelt HistoryLife
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.” Theodore Roosevelt OldYoung
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” Theodore Roosevelt CharacterLife
“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 ActionTrust
“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.” Theodore Roosevelt
“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 ChildHouseOld
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” Theodore Roosevelt Quality
“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 BadBestEasyLaw
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.” Theodore Roosevelt Action
