Theodore Roosevelt

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

Theodore Roosevelt

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

Theodore Roosevelt

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

Theodore Roosevelt

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt