THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready."

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

"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."

"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened."

"Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."

"Nothing worth having comes easy."

"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."

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

"All the resources we need are in the mind."

"I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds."

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

"It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself."

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

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

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"With self discipline most anything is possible."

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

"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."

"No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."

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

"Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

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

"It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."

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

"It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."

"No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly."

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

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

"The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be."

"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."

"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm."

"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."

"We are the heirs of the ages."