Theodore Roosevelt

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

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

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

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

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

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

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“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.”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

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

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

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”