Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
The chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.
For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
With great victory comes great sacrifice.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.