Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

It is not the critic who counts

The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

I've fought hard to get where I am.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

It's not the critic who counts.

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.