Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I always want to grow and top myself.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

I'm not maximized yet.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

I never want to restrict myself and say I'm at my ultimate peak, I'm always looking to take myself to a higher level.

I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.