President Quotes

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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.

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

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

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

America will never be destroyed from the outside.

If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.

He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.

Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

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

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

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

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.

The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

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

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

If you want to test a man’s character give him power.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

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

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens.

There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.