Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Nothing worth having comes to those who do not or are not willing to make an effort to get it.

Remarks at a Reception Given by President Roosevelt to Porto Rico School Teachers at the White House

08/11/1904

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The word was mighty.

We shall keep in the run, not only of abiding but of increasing prosperity, if as a people we only keep our sanity.

We have Biblical authority, as well as the authority of common sense, for the statement that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike...

I think you will do me the justice to say that I do not say what I do not mean.