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500 Powerful Theodore Roosevelt Quotes to Inspire You

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About Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, born on October 27, 1858, in New York City, was the 26th President of the United States and a prominent figure in American politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known for his dynamic leadership and progressive policies, Roosevelt played a significant role in shaping the nation's future through his focus on reform, conservation, and global leadership.

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Here are 500 Powerful quotes by Theodore Roosevelt on various topics to inspire you.

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There has never yet been a man in our history

1. “There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Legacy, Hard Work, Life, Achievement, Values

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader

2. “Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Work, Appraisals, Humor, Workplace, Value

Those who advocate total lack of regulation those who advocate

3. “Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Regulation, Lawlessness, Business, Governance, Socialism

The best executive is one who has sense enough to

4. “The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership, Management, Delegation, Teamwork, Governance

When you are asked if you can do a job

5. “When 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 Roosevelt

Confidence, Initiative, Work, Attitude, Responsibility

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success

6. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Relationships, Communication, Social Skills, Networking

The government is us; we are the government you and

7. “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Government, Society, Responsibility, Citizenship, Community

To educate a man in mind and not in morals

8. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Education, Ethics, Morality, Society, Responsibility

The only man who never makes a mistake is the

9. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Mistakes, Action, Learning, Effort, Growth

Far better is it to dare mighty things to win

10. “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Ambition, Life, Risk, Achievement

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time

11. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Timeliness, Decision-Making, Importance, Insight

Nobody cares how much you know until they know how

12. “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Empathy, Relationships, Communication, Understanding, Leadership

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance fortitude prudence justice brotherly love

13. “Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Freemasonry, Values, Society, Brotherhood, Ethics

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five

14. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Immigration, Language, Society, Integration, Values

There can be no effective control of corporations while their

15. “There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Corporations, Control, Politics, Society, Governance

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in

16. “Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Career, Legacy, Impact, Lessons, Future Generations

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its

17. “The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Naturalism, Science, Art, Profession, Understanding

There is superstition in science quite as much as there

18. “There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Superstition, Science, Theology, Knowledge, Awareness

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it

19. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Perseverance, Strength, Life, Values

Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won

20. “Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln, Leadership, Legacy, History, Representation

Each one must do his part if we wish to

21. “Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Society, Nation, Values, Duty

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save

22. “Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom, Worthiness, Society, Responsibility, Values

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price peace-at-any-price safety-first

23. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Destruction, Values, Society, Ethics, American Life

I want to see you game boys I want to

24. “I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Masculinity, Values, Society, Strength

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone

25. “It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Business, Prosperity, Economics, Society, Reality

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands

26. “There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Morality, Modernity, Ethics, Society, Critique

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this

27. “Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation, Resources, Sustainability, Society, Ethics

To borrow a simile from the football field we believe

28. “To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Sports, Fairness, Ethics, Effort, Values

The sons of all of us will pay in the

29. “The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Justice, Society, Responsibility, Future Generations, Ethics

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the

30. “Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Tyranny, Wealth, Society, Ethics, Critique