Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.