Courage Theodore Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. — Theodore Roosevelt

If we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces. — Paolo Bacigalupi

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. — Theodore Roosevelt

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing." What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) I'm not looking for romance. Lord Peter and Harriet would seem a pretty good model to me. — Jo Walton

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. — Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. — Theodore Roosevelt

I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others. — Theodore Roosevelt

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs. — Theodore Roosevelt

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts — Theodore Roosevelt

Dependency is a curse — Ameya Agrawal

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. — Candice Millard

Photography is my passion. — Alfred Stieglitz

Marriage couple represent one heavenly being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt — John Taliaferro

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. — Theodore Roosevelt

Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in any
commonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if they
tend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for which
they are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the ready
talker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,
sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the body
politic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admire
the gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to do
wrong to the republic. — Theodore Roosevelt

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. - THEODORE ROOSEVELT — Ryan Holiday

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. — Theodore Roosevelt

Life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living. There are many forms of success, many forms of triumph. But there is no other success that in any shape or way approaches that which is open to most of the many, many men and women who have the right ideals. These are the men and the women who see that it is the intimate and homely things that count most. They are the men and women who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and only to those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. — Theodore Roosevelt

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. — Theodore Roosevelt

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. — Theodore Roosevelt

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor. — Theodore Roosevelt

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists. — David Novak

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. — Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. — Theodore Roosevelt

To have a body is to suffer. — Bodhidharma

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear. — Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. — Theodore Roosevelt