"The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" Quotes

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

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The object of love is to serve, not to win.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.