A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt

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!
Theodore Roosevelt

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

We can have no “50-50″ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

Big girls need big diamonds.
Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.
Elizabeth Taylor

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor

I don’t think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I’m not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.
Elizabeth Taylor

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
Elizabeth Taylor

I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.
Elizabeth Taylor

I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.
Elizabeth Taylor

I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
Elizabeth Taylor

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
Elizabeth Taylor

I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.
Elizabeth Taylor

I’m a survivor – a living example of what people can go through and survive.
Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.
Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?
Elizabeth Taylor

If someone’s dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
Elizabeth Taylor

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor

It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor

Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor

My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
Elizabeth Taylor

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Elizabeth Taylor

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.
Elizabeth Taylor

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor

Cleopatra was the Egyptian Queen who lived from 69 BC until 30 BC.

I will not be triumphed over.
Cleopatra

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Cleopatra

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
Cleopatra

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
Cleopatra

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Cleopatra

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
Cleopatra

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
Cleopatra

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Cleopatra

The key to change… is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
Author Unknown

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Charles Darwin

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

People don’t change. Only their costumes do.
Gene Moore

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy

I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jackie Kennedy

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we’ve made it.
Jackie Kennedy

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college… I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?
Jackie Kennedy

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jackie Kennedy

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jackie Kennedy

He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
Jackie Kennedy

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
Jackie Kennedy

Do you know what I think of history? … For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so… No one’ll ever know everything about Jack. But … history made Jack what he was … this lonely, little sick boy … scarlet fever … this little boy sick so much of the time, reading in bed, reading history … reading the Knights of the Round Table … and he just liked that last song.
Then I thought, for Jack history was full of heroes. And if it made him this way, if it made him see the heroes, maybe other little boys will see. Men are such a combination of good and bad … He was such a simple man. But he was so complex, too. Jack had this hero idea of history, the idealistic view, but then he had that other side, the pragmatic side… his friends were all his old friends; he loved his Irish Mafia.
Jackie Kennedy

I said, “I want to be in there when he dies”… so Burkeley forced his way into the operating room and said, “It’s her prerogative, it’s her prerogative…” and I got in, there were about forty people there. Dr. Perry wanted to get me out. But I said “It’s my husband, his blood, his brains are all over me.”
Jackie Kennedy

I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction.
Jackie Kennedy

The ring was all blood-stained… so I put the ring on Jack’s finger… and then I kissed his hand…
Jackie Kennedy

When they carried Jack in, Hill threw his coat over Jack’s head, and I held his head to throw the coat over it. It wasn’t repulsive to me for one moment — nothing was repulsive to me —
Jackie Kennedy

His head was so beautiful. I tried to hold the top of his head down, maybe I could keep it in… but I knew he was dead.
Jackie Kennedy

They were gunning the motorcycles. There were these little backfires. There was one noise like that. I thought it was a backfire. Then next I saw Connally grabbing his arms and saying “no, no, no, no, no,” with his fist beating. Then Jack turned and I turned. All I remember was a blue-gray building up ahead. Then Jack turned back so neatly, his last expression was so neat… you know that wonderful expression he had when they’d ask him a question about one of the ten million pieces they have in a rocket, just before he’d answer. He looked puzzled, then he slumped forward. He was holding out his hand … I could see a piece of his skull coming off. It was flesh-colored, not white — he was holding out his hand … I can see this perfectly clean piece detaching itself from his head. Then he slumped in my lap, his blood and his brains were in my lap … Then Clint Hill [the Secret Service man], he loved us, he made my life so easy, he was the first man in the car … We all lay down in the car … And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling “he’s dead, he’s dead.” All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying “Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack.”
Jackie Kennedy