Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
EffortActionPerseveranceDrive I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
LeadershipDelegationTrust 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.
EffortCouragePerseveranceImprovement It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
ChildrenFamilyHappinessPriorities 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.
ConfidenceInitiativeProblem SolvingLearning 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.
ActionProgressAchievement 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.
DecisionActionInaction 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.
CharacterInfluenceImportance Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
ActionThoughtInfluence Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
DeathAbsenceSufferingPeace Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Self-ResponsibilityAccountabilitySelf-Reflection If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
CourageAchievementExperiencePerseverance 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.
ActionOpportunityInitiative Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Resistance to ChangeProgressTimelinessHypocrisy The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
LawEqualityObedience 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.
AdversityGreatnessLeadershipChallengeRecognition If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
LoyaltyPatriotismFidelity The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
GrowthAmbitionCareer Advancement Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
DutyIntegrityDiligenceSacrifice 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.
Hard WorkEffortDetermination I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
VotingResponsibilityCharacter A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Hard WorkDiligenceAdmiration 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.
SuccessRelationship The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
RiskCourageSacrificeDedicationValor 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.
WarPeace Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
CensorshipFreedom Of SpeechSuppressionEthicsPatriotism To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Comfort vs. ChallengeLegacyEffortPerseveranceGrowth Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
SacrificeCourageJusticeEquality A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
LanguageCultural CohesionIntegrationNational Identity Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
EffortPerseveranceFailureCourage It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
KnowledgeEducationSpiritualityInner WisdomGuidance A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
ContributionCapabilityCivic ResponsibilityValue 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.
EnvyHatredSelf-HarmModerationVices Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
EducationMoralsCharacterEthicsResponsibility To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
AspirationIdealismPragmatismFocusPerseverance Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
MoralityJusticeInequalityIntegrityPower Dynamics No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
OrganizationBalancePowerChange It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Cause And EffectEffortPreparationConsequence Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.