"I have a perfect horror of words..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
More by 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.”
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“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.”
More on Action
“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”
“Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?”
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
More on Words
“Words belong to each other.”
“Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.”
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”