black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Asset Behaviour Generation Human Nature Nation Value
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Adapt Afraid Change Courage Fear Life
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Action Greatness Man Mind Speak
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Brave Courage Courtesy Gentlemen One Liner
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Care Feminism Labor Man Value Women
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Fiction Life Reality Shame Sorrow Suffering
I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Approval Ethics Heart Men
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Finding Help Justice
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Doer Dreamser Greatness Individual Nation True
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Corruption Government Guilty Politics
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Healing Inspirational Man Mistake Wisdom Work Hard
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Avoid Behaviour Courtesy Crime Forgiveness Hurt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Destroy Duty Love Patriotism Peace Safety
In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Achievement Follow Football Inspirational Life Principle
A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Depend Ideal Live Man
No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Bully Coward Insult Man Suffering

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes