Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Success: 90+ Quotes to Achieve Your Goals & Dreams

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is not the critic who counts, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

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

Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort.

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

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

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.

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

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort.

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

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

When you play, play hard, and when you work, don’t play at all.

We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst, but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.

The joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.

I wish to preach the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife.

The men and women who have the right ideals are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self sacrifice.

With self discipline, almost anything is possible.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is hit the line hard.

A man cannot practice too much if he wishes to attain even moderate proficiency, and as a matter of fact he soon gets to wish to practice the whole time.

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

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them certainly I can, then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to mean horses and gun fighters, but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

A man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Love of peace is common among weak, short sighted, timid, and lazy persons, and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character, neither quality shall by itself avail.

Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

With gentleness and tenderness there must go dauntless bravery and grim acceptance of labor and hardship and peril.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood, the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will.

No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.

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

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

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.

It is not the critic who counts, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails, we put him in jail, it is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

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

A stream cannot rise larger than its source.

Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon, it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do, that is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius, that person has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

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

All the resources we need are in the mind.

I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.

Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

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.

A man must be respected for what he made of himself.

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

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

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.

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

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose, power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

A man’s first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him.

The insistence upon individual responsibility was, and is, and always will be, a prime necessity.

For all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, self reliance, energy, and courage.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Each man should have all he earns, but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.

I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

If I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Now and then I am asked as to what books a statesman should read, and my answer is poetry and novels.

The room for choice is so limitless that to my mind it seems absurd to try to make catalogues which shall be supposed to appeal to all the best thinkers.

I think we ought to be broad minded enough to recognize that a good citizen, striving with fearlessness, honesty, and common sense to do his best for the nation, can render service to it in many different ways.

The first duty of an American citizen is that he shall work in politics, his second duty is that he shall do that work in a practical manner, and his third is that it shall be done in accord with the highest principles of honor and justice.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly.

Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history.

I do wish that more of our good citizens would go into politics, and would do it in the same spirit with which their fathers went into the Federal armies.

No man has a right to shirk his political duties under whatever plea of pleasure or business.

The government is us, we are the government, you and I.

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade union leaders.