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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"Believe you can and you're halfway there""At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.""There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.""I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!""Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.""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.""In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.""Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.""When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.""The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.""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; w""Believe you can and you're halfway there.""The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.""To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing.""Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.""I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.""A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.""The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.""The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic—the man who actually does the work even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.""There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to mean horses and gunfighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."