Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Cited by

• Will Hobbs (1)
  • IN: Downriver (1991) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if he can travel at all should see.
    FROM: Speech about Grand Canyon, (1903), Speech, US
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: Badlands (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After nightfall, the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever...
    FROM: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, (1885), Book, US
• Sean McFate (1)
  • IN: Shadow War (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasims, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
    FROM: The Man In The Arena, (1910), Speech, US
• Chris Ver Wiel (1)
  • IN: Starbucks Nation (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort wihout error or shortcoming , but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
    FROM: "The Man in the Arena" Speech, (1910), Speech, US
• Jim Crace (1)
  • IN: All that Follows (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who spends himself for a worthy cause... and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
    FROM: NULL, (1910), Speech, US
• Caleb Carr (1)
  • IN: The Angel of Darkness (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not having been in the dark house, but having left it, that counts.
    FROM: From a 1916 letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1916), Letter, US