"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better."

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

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

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

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

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

"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty."

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

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

"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

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

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

"No man is above the law and no man is below it, nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."