Theodore Roosevelt Quotations:

Famous Words of Inspiration

Theodore Roosevelt quotations that continue to inspire and motivate.

Accomplishment: The Greatest Doer Must Be the Greatest Dreamer

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Get action, do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.

Conduct [is] the ultimate test of the worth of a belief.

To love one's country above all others is in no way incompatible with respecting and wishing well to all others.

Cowardice is the unpardonable sin.

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

The vice of envy is...always a confession of inferiority.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those who show themselves worthy of it.

[The] spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which ever ultimately does great good, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

True liberty shows itself to best advantage in protecting the rights of others, and especially of minorities.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Do What You Can- Teddy Roosevelt

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I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

Prosperity can only be lasting if it is based on justice.

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.

School is an invaluable adjunct to the home, but it is a wretched substitute for it.

I'm as strong as a bull moose, and you can use me to the limit.

There can be no falser standard [of success] than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.

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.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt

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