Inspirational Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
1858 - 1919
26th President of the United States

About Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He is most famous for his personality: his energy, his vast range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" personality. Originating from a story from one of Roosevelt's hunting expeditions, Teddy bears are named after him.

As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment – the Rough Riders – during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected governor. An avid writer, his 35 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, the American frontier, political history, naval history, and his autobiography.

In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He is the youngest person to become President. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster". He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.

Roosevelt negotiated for the U.S. to take control of the Panama Canal and its construction in 1904; he felt the Canal's completion was his most important and historically significant international achievement. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.

Historian Thomas Bailey, who disagreed with Roosevelt's policies, nevertheless concluded, "Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He dominated his era as he dominated conversations....the masses loved him; he proved to be a great popular idol and a great vote getter. "His image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore. Roosevelt has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.



The famous Theodore Roosevelt has inspired many. Enjoy this collection of inspirational quotes from Mr Roosevelt.

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George,
I work harder at it than the average man.
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.
The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert.
The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,
but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
~Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
~Theodore Roosevelt

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
~Theodore Roosevelt

In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Get action.
Seize the moment.
Man was never intended to become an oyster.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake
is the man who never does anything.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884 - 1962
American Human Rights Activist, Diplomat

About Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Active in politics for the rest of her life, Roosevelt chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which helped start second-wave feminism, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She was one of the most admired people of the 20th century, according to Gallup's List of Widely Admired People.



Enjoy these inspirational quotes filled with common sense from Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along".
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Quotes By Plato

Plato
427 BC - 347 BC
Greek Philosopher

About Plato
Plato (427/428 BC – 347/348 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Plato's sophistication as a writer can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Although there is little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded, the pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. The dialogues since Plato's time have been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.



Old, but famous inspirational quotes and sayings from Plato. While these sayings and quotes were said many years ago, the wisdom of Platos words still apply today.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
~Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
~Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Plato

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
~Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~Plato

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
~Plato

Never discourage anyone.....who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
~Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
~Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
~Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
~Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
~Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~Plato

Friends have all things in common.
~Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
~Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.
~Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
~Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
~Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
~Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~Plato

Life must be lived as play.
~Plato

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~Plato

Inspiration Quotes By Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi
1913 - 1970
American Coach

Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his 9 years. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. Lombardi's record in the post-season was 9-1, the loss coming in the first of those games, the 1960 NFL championship.

Vince Lombardi Speech


Be inspired by these famous inspirational quotes by Vince Lombardi. Many of Mr. Lombardi's quotes can apply to all aspects of life. We hope you enjoy this collection of inspirational quotes.

It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up.
~Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
~Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
~Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
~Vince Lombardi

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~Vince Lombardi

Having the capacity to lead is not enough.
The leader must be willing to use it.
~Vince Lombardi

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges
and does something about it.
~Vince Lombardi

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
~Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
~Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
~Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
~Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel-these are the things that endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them.
~Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
~Vince Lombardi

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
~Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.
~Vince Lombardi

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
~Vince Lombardi

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
~Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
~Vince Lombardi

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
~Vince Lombardi

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
~Vince Lombardi

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
~Vince Lombardi

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~Vince Lombardi

Inspirational Quotes By Henry Ford

Henry Ford
1863 - 1947
American Automobile Industrialist

About Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. Ford did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.



A collection of famous quotes by Henry Ford which are inspirational. We hope they give you insight to a great role model who achieved success against the odds.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
~Henry Ford

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
~Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
~Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
~Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
~Henry Ford

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
~Henry Ford

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
~Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.
~Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
~Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
~Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
~Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
~Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~Henry Ford

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
~Henry Ford

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
~Henry Ford

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
~Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
~Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
~Henry Ford

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
~Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
~Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
~Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
~Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
~Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
~Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~Henry Ford

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
~Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
~Henry Ford