Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

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.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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