Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I 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!

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’