Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fitness, Running, Fighting

• We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Bully

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

• Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stress, Fighting, Men

  "The College Graduate and Public Life" (1894) See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 5; Theodore Roosevelt 18

• For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Flavor, Sucker Punch

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

• Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sleep, Fighting, Men

• We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Optimism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Fighting, Pursuit Of Happiness

• If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

• No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

• I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Fighting, Destiny

• Councils of War never fight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

• My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

• My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Competition, Hats

  Newspaper interview, 21 Feb. 1912

• Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Fighting, History

• The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

• We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Heart, Eye

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.30, Cornell University Press

• Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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