Theodore Roosevelt

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

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"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."

"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 most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

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

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

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

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

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

"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"

"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."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"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"

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

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

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