Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work goes on."

"Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority."

"There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are..."

"In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life"