Words to live by

Theodore Roosevelt had these great things to say. They need no introduction or explanation.

• Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
• Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
• 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.
• The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. 
• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
• With self-discipline most anything is possible. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.