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Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Theodore Roosevelt

Character, Honesty, Truth

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt

Accountability, Responsibility

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Communication, Conflict, Persuasion

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership, Trust

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Antelope Canyon

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

Theodore Roosevelt

Integrity, Leadership

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I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

Adversity, Character, Leadership

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Character, Leadership

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Zion National Park

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Conflict, Negotiation, Speech, Strength

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Yellowstone National Park

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership

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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

Theodore Roosevelt

Business, Society

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Capital Reef National Park

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Action, Failure, Success

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Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, Maui

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Time, Wisdom

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Hawaii, Maui

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Honor, Strength, Work

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Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Belief, Choice, Decision, Inspiration, Self-esteem, Success

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Valley of Fire State Park

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Theodore Roosevelt

Customer Service, Public Speaking, Service

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Arches National Park

I have never spent an unhappy day unless by my own fault.

Theodore Roosevelt

Accountability, Attitude, Choice, Happiness, Optimism, Stress

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Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Defeat, Failure, Fear, Victory, Work

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

Conflict, Diversity, Peace, Society

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Hawaii, Maui

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Action, Decision, Stress

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Hawaii, Maui

The ability to work hard is, perhaps, the most valuable aid to success.

Theodore Roosevelt

Action, Success, Work

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