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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Work, Successful
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “America and the World War”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Running, Hate
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects”

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
Love, Inspirational, Life
Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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
Life, Motivational, Success
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Peace, Winning
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Men, Temporary Defeat

The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Courage, Spring
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Power, Quality

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Happiness, Running
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.119, Cornell University Press

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Life, Dark
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Men, Evil
In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers"

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, History, Delight
Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Strength, Dedication
Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Football, Principles
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Country, Character
Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899