Theodore Roosevelt

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“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're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful businessman, or railway man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor...”

“„Fă ce poți cu ce ai, acolo unde ești.”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal wit...”

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“The American people abhor a vacuum.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”