Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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Theodore Roosevelt

Profession : President

Birth : October 27, 1858

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

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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 nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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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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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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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.

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