“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

What does it mean?

Don't wait for perfect conditions. Use the skills, time and tools you already have and start today. Roosevelt said he learned the saying from a man named Bill Widener.

• “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”– Often attributed to Theodore Roosevelt
• “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”– Theodore Roosevelt
• “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”– Theodore Roosevelt
• “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”– Theodore Roosevelt