Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The work will stand, no matter what.

People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

I've surprised a lot of people, including myself, with my longevity.

I don't really celebrate victories. Kobe Bryant just kept playing. Michael Jordan just kept playing.

Just give me the ball; I don't care how old I get. Give me the ball.

Cameron called me a dinosaur you know? Well I'm the only dinosaur who can ride a bike 12 miles a day.

One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.