president Quotes

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

• 520
• courage

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

• 447
• wisdom

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

• 418
• Happiness

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

• 369
• dislike

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

• 340
• feelings

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

• 297
• motivational

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

• 283
• character

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

• 282
• Forgiveness

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

• 278
• motivational

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

• 277
• Effort

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

• 269
• inspirational

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

• 265
• motivational

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

• 263
• destroy

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

• 259
• achievement

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

• 252
• success

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

• 250
• anger

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

• 239
• count

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

• 223
• neighbors

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

• 216
• actions

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

• 205
• involve

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

• 204
• inspirational

Well done is better than well said.

• 199
• motivational

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

• 198
• Friends

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

• 194
• motivational

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

• 193
• Character

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

• 192
• progress

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

• 190
• motivational

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

• 189
• Success

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

• 183
• freedom

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

• 182
• Principles

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

• 181
• Change

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.

• 180
• luck

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

• 176
• act

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

• 171
• courage

He that can have patience can have what he will.

• 170
• Patience

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

• 169
• attitude

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

• 168
• Education

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

• 166
• motivational

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

• 165
• principle

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

• 162
• war

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

• 158
• ability

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

• 150
• love

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

• 147
• strength

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

• 142
• people

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

• 131
• passion

One person can make a difference and everyone should try.

• 127
• difference

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

• 127
• game

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

• 125
• success

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

• 125
• Gun

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

• 123
• books