Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
The government is us we are the government, you and I.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is...
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.