Theodore Roosevelt Life Quotes

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What did Theodore Roosevelt say about Life?

Theodore Roosevelt has written many quotes about Life. E.g.,

  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  • Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
  • No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

What are the top most famous Life quotes by Theodore Roosevelt?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Life by Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  • Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
  • No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
  • Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
  • There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
  • 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.
  • Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
  • I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
  • Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.