Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

The German people will have to work two extra hours per day for the next 10 or 15 years...we must have the courage to say to the people: ‘for the present and for some time to come you will have to work overtime without overtime payment

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

There is no substitute for work.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground trying to help feed us for $1.25 a day. She was using an axe, just like a man, and something flew up and hit her in her eye. It eventually caused her to lose both of her eyes and I began to get sicker and sicker of the system there. I used to see my mother wear clothes that would have so many patches on them, they had been done over and over and over again. She would do that but she would try to keep us decent.