Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Every man is the son of his own works.

I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

You have to rely on yourself and your associates - gifts don't come from above; you're going to win them, or you won't have them.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

I'm a proud fighter for the little guy and the people of my state who are struggling to make ends meet. That's what Louisiana values are about.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.