5 Theodore Roosevelt Quotes on Risk

Theodore Roosevelt quotes on risk

5. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

36. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

99. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

122. The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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