Life Quotes Quote by Theodore Roosevelt — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”

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

“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.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”

“Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.”

““Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father.”

“Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.”