Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Well Being

Quotes about: Well Being

• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Looks, Gone

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

• It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.74, Cornell University Press

• Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Criminals, Littles

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

• It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Standards, Admire, Well Being

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

• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Corruption, Well Being

  Speech, Washington, D.C., 14 Apr. 1906 See Bunyan 6

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