The 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 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 ROOSEVELTIn this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTTo educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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 ROOSEVELTNo man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTKeep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWomen 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 ROOSEVELTThis country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTPeople ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBlack care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWe must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTJustice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT