Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 12

• I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Argument weak; speak loudly!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Argument, Speak

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• A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Democracy, Progressive, Cease

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.40, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Joy, Fit

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

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Happiness, Joy, Soul

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Design, Painting, Modern

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• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Dedication

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

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• I am a part of everything that I have read.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reading, Better Life

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• Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Trials, Demand

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• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Envy, Hatred

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

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• Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Method, Avoiding, Constructive

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• I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, North Dakota, Said

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• 90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, People, Feel Good

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• Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Going Out, Burning, Fuel

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• The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Politics, Kind, Individualism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “The Square Deal, 1901-1905”

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• No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Riches, Prosperity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Shields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Squares, Government, Citizens

  Theodore Roosevelt “Letters: The Square Deal, 1901-1905”

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• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Play Hard, Advice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Art, Air, Rivers

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• The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Needs, Corporations, Speak

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

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• Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rivers, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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