Best Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt (Top 10)

  1. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
  2. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
  3. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
  4. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
  5. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
  6. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
  7. Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
  8. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
  9. Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
  10. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

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