Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Man is not made for defeat.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

I don't love to fail.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

To achieve truly important things you have to be willing to put your personal reputation on the line …

Winners celebrate and losers mobilize.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.

I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.