Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to read more

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth read more

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.