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Theodore Roosevelt on Graduation

1858–1919 United States

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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

There are many kinds of success in life worth having.

Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

Throughout our history the success of the homemaker has been but another name for the up-building of the nation.

The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900)

Success does not lie entirely in the hands of any one of us.

Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Attributed

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Disputed Stepping Stones : The Complete Bible Narratives (1941)

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Disputed Art of Communicating Ideas (1952)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.