Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

• A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Self, Essence

• 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”

• 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

• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

• Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perseverance, Honesty, Character

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.21, Taylor Trade Publications

• In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Names, Perfection

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Mean, Men

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

• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Thinking, Political

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

• We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Winning, Men, Effort

  Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

• From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Quality, Affair

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt”

• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Latin

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

• 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

• There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.69, Chartwell

• Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Uplifting, Strong

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Men, Thinking

• It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Mind

  Jacob Abbott, Flavius Vegetus Romanus, Duke of Wellington, John S. C. Abbott, Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Strategy Six Pack 2”, p.298, Lulu.com

• Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Good Man, Quality

• Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

• The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Quality, Individual, Possession

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.14, Modern Library

• It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Past, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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