Quote

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Theodore Roosevelt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Conservationist
Diarist
Essayist
Explorer
Historian
Naturalist
Ornithologist
Politician
Rancher
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Teddy Roosevelt
T. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Jr.
Body
Seats
Human
Pants
Humans
Innovation
Need
Creativity
Sometimes
Create
Reversed
Needs
Happens
Seat
People
Two
Kick
Ends
Kicks

More quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Image
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
The worst of all fears is the fear of living
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Our words must be judged by our deeds and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty let us live in the harness, striving mightily let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
The eighth commandment reads, Thou shalt not steal. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the rich man. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the poor man. It reads simply and plainly, Thou shalt not steal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.
Theodore Roosevelt