70 Quotes about Progress from Teddy Roosevelt
– Quotes About Progress –
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was America’s youngest president? Theodore had many books to his name and offered numerous motivational ideas that can assist anyone in achieving personal achievement. May these Progress Quotes motivate you to keep moving forward toward your goals.
Quotes About Progress
Everyone wishes to advance in life. Continue reading to learn about some of Theodore Roosevelt’s comments that led to his reputation as a remarkable writer and speaker.
1. “I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”–Theodore Roosevelt.
2. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
3. “There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters, but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.”
4. “Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
5. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
6. “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.” “Quotes about Progress”
7. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
8. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
9. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
10. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
11. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
12. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on”
Perfection Quotes
13. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
14. “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
15. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
16. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
17. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
18. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” “Quotes about Progress”
19. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
20. “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
Process Quotes
21. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
22. “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care”
23. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
24. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
25. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
26. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
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Progression Quotes
27. “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
28. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
29. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
30. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
31. “A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
32. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” “Quotes about Progress”
33. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
34. “Don’t hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!”
Imperfection Quotes
35. “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
36. “I don’t always get shot during the middle of a speech, but when I do, I finish the damn speech.”
37. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
38. “With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.”
39. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
40. “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.”
41. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
42. “Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
43. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
44. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
45. “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty.”
Quotes about Trying your Best
46. “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 a character!”
47. “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
48. “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.”
49. “This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
50. “A stream cannot rise larger than its source.”
51. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… 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.”
52. “It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
53. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Quotes about Results
54. “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 grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
55. “It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
56. “If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness.”
57. “Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual, and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.”
58. “All the resources we need are in the mind.”
Quotes About Change in Life and Moving On
59. “Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”
60. “There is only one quality worse than the hardness of heart and that is the softness of head.”
61. “In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.”
62. “The men and women who have the right ideals… are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labour and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from the power of work and sense of duty.”
63. “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.” “Quotes about Progress”
64. “At sometimes in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.”
Quotes about Perfection
65. “We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of the disaster.”
66. “Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
67. “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
68. “Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
69. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
70. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
There’s no doubt that anyone who considers Teddy Roosevelt’s accomplishments during his brief presidency, as well as all he had to overcome in his personal life, will come to the conclusion that he was a man of worth.
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