Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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

• 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

• The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rely Upon, Suffering

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Missing You, Distance, World Suffering

• There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Suffering, Sorrow

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.146, Applewood Books

• Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Community, Suffering

• There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Suffering, Politics, Superstitions

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.247, Cosimo, Inc.

• The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Real, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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