"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
― Theodore Roosevelt
Topic(s):
Men
More From Theodore Roosevelt
- "Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering."
- "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
- "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."
More In Men
- "To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."― Jean-Paul Sartre
- "Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius."― Albert Pike