Theodore Roosevelt

“Crois en toi, et tu es déjà à mi-chemin.”

“Ce n’est pas le critique qui compte, ni celui qui montre comment l’homme fort trébuche, ou là où l’homme d’action aurait pu mieux faire. Le mérite revient à celui qui est réellement dans l’arène.”

“Fais ce que tu peux, avec ce que tu as, là où tu es.”

“De loin la plus belle récompense que la vie puisse offrir est la chance de travailler dur à une œuvre qui en vaut la peine.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to make rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”

“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”

“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

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

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

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