Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Wisdom

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Courage, Gentleman

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Country, Pride

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

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!

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Character, Acceptance

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Children, Names

Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.24, Taylor Trade Publications

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Memories, Struggle

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Courage, Work

Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life”

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Failure, Winning

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

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Politics, Littles

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Men, Politics

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Politics, Individualism

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.70, tredition