Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 10

• If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Peace, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Book, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Favors, Obedience

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Summer, Loneliness, Men

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• The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Heart, Joy

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• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Art, Air, Rivers

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• When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Impossible, Failing

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.146, Courier Corporation

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• We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Shirk, Duty, Inaugural

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• Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dignity, Politeness, Subservience

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• The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Optimism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

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• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Play Hard, Advice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Thinking, Justice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.95, Cornell University Press

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• There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dark, House, Devil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.173, Cornell University Press

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• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• ...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Marine, Men, Records

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• I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Teaching, Language, One Word

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• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

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• If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Humanity, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The
  highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from
  danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins
  the splendid ultimate triumph.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Winning, Men, Triumph

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Adversity, Choices, Rust

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.42, Chartwell

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• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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