Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Running Quotes, Thinking Quotes

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Running Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Fighting Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Nature Quotes

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wrath Quotes , Flames Quotes

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Bird Quotes

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Presidential Quotes

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Passion Quotes

The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Quality Quotes , Individual Quotes

The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Dream Quotes , Men Quotes

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Running Quotes , Army Quotes

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Political Quotes

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Life Quotes , Work Quotes

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Boss Quotes

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Oval Quotes , Welfare Quotes

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Graduation Quotes , Stars Quotes

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Eugenics Quotes , People Quotes

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Presidential Quotes

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Needs Quotes , Attention Quotes

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Confusion Quotes , Devil Quotes