Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Greatness

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We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Theodore Roosevelt

Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mean, Greatness, Roots

Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.350, Cosimo, Inc.

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Roosevelt

Faith, Greatness, Play

Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.2907, Madison & Adams Press

When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

Theodore Roosevelt

Greatness, People, Expansion

Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership, Greatness, Average

Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Greatness, People

Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3188, Madison & Adams Press

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

Theodore Roosevelt

Winning, Greatness, Men

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.