If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.


Letter to his son, Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 1915

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.