Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no effort without error and shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Theodore Roosevelt

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

Theodore Roosevelt

What I am to be, I am becoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Theodore Roosevelt