Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
- Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.
- Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
- Theodore Roosevelt