Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Achievements • Motivational • Perfectionism

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Communication • Leadership • Opinions

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

Relationships • Success

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

Motivational • Success

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Fame • History • Leadership

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

Actions • Motivational • Perseverance

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

Ambition • Motivational • Perseverance

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

Crime • Education • Society

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Improvement • Motivational • Perseverance

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Behavior • Character • Etiquette

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Confidence • Motivational

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Discovery • Experience • Growth

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Change • Politics

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Motivational • Perseverance • Progress

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Freedom • Government • Justice

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Age • Experience • Life

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Time • Wisdom

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Education • Morality • Society

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Leadership • Motivational • Work

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Age • Success • Youth