About Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. President, conservationist, soldier and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (1858-1919)

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More from Theodore Roosevelt

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.Citizenship in a Republic, speech at the Sorbonne (1910)
• Far better it is 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.The Strenuous Life (1899)
• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Labor Day address, Syracuse, New York (1903)
• Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904)
• I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.Address in Des Moines, Iowa (1910)

More quotes on failure and resilience

• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.Maya Angelou
• We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
• Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Oscar Wilde
• The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.Ernest Hemingway

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