Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEach time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo 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 ROOSEVELTNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTPeople don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere 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 ROOSEVELTCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCharacter, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWe are the heirs of the ages.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT