Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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 nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
