6 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes on Resilience

Theodore Roosevelt quotes on resilience

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

51. Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

56. I am all right - I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this speech.

82. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

108. Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

114. 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.