Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Faith Quotes, Greatness Quotes

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Faith Quotes , Greatness Quotes

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Mean Quotes , Water Quotes

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Office Quotes

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Sports Quotes , Men Quotes

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Success Quotes , Character Quotes

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Greatness Quotes

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Girl Quotes

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Reality Quotes

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Sports Quotes , Window Quotes

The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Art Quotes , Air Quotes

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Tree Quotes

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Riches Quotes

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Individual Quotes

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Black Quotes , Pace Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Relationship Quotes

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Issues Quotes , Doe Quotes

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Doe Quotes

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Running Quotes , Long Quotes

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Success Quotes , Perseverance Quotes