Maxims of Theodore Roosevelt:
- A bad man of ability is worse than a bad man of no ability.
- It is almost as irritating to be patronized as to be wronged.
- Timid endurance of wrongdoing may often be to commit one of the greatest evils that one can possibly commit against one’s fellows.
- The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a successful and truly good life.
- Our system of government is the best in the world for a people able to carry it on. Only the highest type of people can carry it on.
- No one ought to submit to being imposed upon, but before you act always stop to consider the rights of others before standing up for your own.
- The wicked who prosper are never a pleasant sight.
- It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Don’t let practical politics mean foul politics.
- For almost every gain there is a penalty.
- There is grave danger in attempting to establish invariable rules.
- Woe to all of us if ever as a people we grow to condone evil because it is successful.
- Remember that the shots that count in war are the ones that hit.
- What every man needs is robust virtue, that will enable him to go out into the world and remain true to himself.
- Capacity for work is absolutely necessary, and no man can be said to live in the true sense of the word if he does not work.
- In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard preached on the football field: Don’t flinch; don’t fall; hit the the line hard.