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.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

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.

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.