Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care"

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"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."

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

"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."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."