Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Teaching, Men

• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Farewell

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

• We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Law, Justice

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

• In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

• In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Hands, Order

• The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Purpose, Pay

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

• I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Running

• The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Father, Heart, Fighting

• The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Safety, Purpose

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.327, Best Books on

• With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teamwork, Lying, Challenges

• We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Character, Purpose, Faces

  Dwight D. Eisenhower (2006). “The Military-Industrial Complex: With an Introduction by Jesse Smith”, p.24, Basementia Publications

• The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Purpose, Citizenship

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

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