Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States of America. He was born on this day, October 27 in the year 1858 and passed away in the year 1919.

Here are some of his words of wisdom to motivate us.

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

“With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.”

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“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.”

“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.”

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