Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

“No 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.”

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the...”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

“We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff ...”

“In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.”

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

“To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the...”

“Believe you can, and you're halfway there.”

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they li...”

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”

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

“I 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.”