Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWhenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
THEODORE ROOSEVELTDon’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTComparison is the thief of joy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBe practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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 ROOSEVELTNo man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWhen you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT