Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

I feel like a Bull Moose.

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!

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

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

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.