Theodore Roosevelt Quotes – Inspiring Words from a Great Leader

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

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

Do what you love. Love what you do.

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

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Do what is right, not what is easy.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes – Inspiring Words from a Great Leader part 2

Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

The joy in life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon.

Never forget that actions speak louder than words.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Do something every day that scares you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

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

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

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

Choose wisely, for choices define our lives.

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.