"I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.












Believe you can and you're halfway there.
More Theodore Roosevelt quotes
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
"Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
"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 a...
"We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom,...
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The c...
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
"Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an eas...