“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, 5 October 1898

About Theodore Roosevelt

1858 – 1919

Twenty-sixth President of the United States, known for his 1910 speech "Citizenship in a Republic".

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...”

“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”

“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers?”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love.”