Inspirational Presidential Quotes

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• A man is known by the company he keeps

  Aesop

  Life, Men, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.109, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Presidential, Shapes

  Speech to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care Reform, delivered 9 September 2009

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• America is too great for small dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, 4th Of July, America

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

  George Washington

  Business, Triumph, Blogging

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• Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Oil, Government, President

  Remarks during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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• Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hate, Winning, Hatred

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Change, Presidential

  Bettina Stiekel, Jimmy Carter, Various (2003). “The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People”, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Presidential, Tasks

  State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

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• 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, People, Excuse

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Ninety Nine, People

  "The Roosevelt I Knew". Book by Frances Perkins, p. 5, 1946.

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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  We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Attitude, Optimistic

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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