Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Explore 8 approved quotes attributed to Theodore Roosevelt.

About Theodore Roosevelt

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt
Adam Cuerden · Public domain

President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 · 1858 – 1919

Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly asthmatic child who rebuilt himself deliberately, and then never stopped: rancher, police commissioner, cavalry colonel, president at forty-two, Nobel peace laureate, and later the explorer of an uncharted Amazon tributary that nearly killed him. He broke up monopolies and created the national parks and forests at a scale nobody has matched. He is quoted for the man in the arena, from a speech about the worthlessness of critics who never attempt anything.

Known for: African game trails : an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist, Hunting trips of a ranchman, sketches of sport on the northern cattle plains;, The wilderness hunter; an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound, and rifle;

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