Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Success

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Character, Men

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Relationship, Success

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

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Pain, Mean

Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Thinking, Voice

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Courage, Badass

Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Hunting, Duck Hunting

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Perseverance, Men