Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 12

• Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Long, Progress, Our Words

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Adventure, Life Is, Moments

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The object of government is the welfare of the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Welfare

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.59, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Envy, Hatred

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is no effort without error or shortcoming.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Errors, Effort, Daring Greatly

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• What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Adversity, Men, Practice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.286, Library of America

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• Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peaceful, Violence, Normal

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.240, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Taken

  "Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

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• From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Reading, Men

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• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Joy, Fit

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lonely, Wilderness, Greater

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.204, Stackpole Books

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• Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Trials, Demand

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• Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Surrender, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Men, Careers

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Shields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.91, tredition

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• In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reality, Men, Names

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Strong, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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• A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Democracy, Progressive, Cease

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.40, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, School, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.361, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Needs, Corporations, Speak

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rivers, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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