70 Amazing Presidential Quotes to Inspire You About Leadership and Freedom

Aug 18, 2021 10:26 PM
70 Amazing Presidential Quotes to Inspire You About Leadership and Freedom
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A president's legacy is not only determined by his actions, but also by his words. Those who have held the highest office in the United States know very well that what they say has an impact far beyond the podium. This list collects some of the best presidential quotes from American history, grouped by theme, from newest to oldest.

Famous Presidential Quotes

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Here are some popular presidential quotes you need to read. Enjoy.

  • "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." — John F. Kennedy
  • "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." — George Washington
  • "The cynics may be the loudest voices — but I promise you they will accomplish the least." — Barack Obama
  • "Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." — John F. Kennedy
  • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." — John Quincy Adams
  • "The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Abraham Lincoln
  • "To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do." — John Adams
  • "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money." — James Madison

Presidential Quotes on Leadership

Presidential Quotes on Leadership
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Looking for definitions about leadership? These presidential quotes might help.

  • “Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority. A commander of a regiment is not necessarily a leader. He has all of the appurtenances of power given by a set of Army regulations by which he can compel unified action. He can say to a body such as this, ‘Rise,’ and ‘Sit down.’ You do it exactly. But that is not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • "Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.” – George Washington
  • “The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself — always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent, and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.” – Jimmy Carter
  • “The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.” – Thomas Jefferson
  • “Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.” – Chester A. Arthur
  • “Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.” – Harry S. Truman
  • “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
  • “Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.” – William Howard Taft
  • “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
  • “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
  • “There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
  • “The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – James Buchanan

 

American Presidential Quotes

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If you're looking for inspiration in your career, it's worth reading these presidential quotes from the US president on everything from self-doubt to success.

  • "It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future." — James Monroe
  • "A leadership is someone who brings people together." — George W. Bush
  • "Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." — John Adams
  • "We should never despair, our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again." — George Washington
  • "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today." — Thomas Jefferson
  • "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men." — John F. Kennedy
  • "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." — Lyndon B. Johnson
  • "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." — Theodore Roosevelt
  • "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." — Thomas Jefferson
  • "The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph." — George Washington
  • "Without passion you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing." — Donald Trump
  • "Always stand on principle... even if you stand alone." — John Adams
  • "Great lives never go out; they go on." — Benjamin Harrison
  • "Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer." — Ronald Reagan
  • "Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack." — Gerald R. Ford

Presidential Inspirational Quotes

Presidential Inspirational Quotes
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Looking for inspiration? These amazing presidential quotes will give you fresh insight and inspiration.

  • "If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should never grow old." — James Garfield
  • "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." — Abraham Lincoln
  • "Try and fail, but don't fail to try." — John Quincy Adams
  • "I can never consent to being dictated to." — John Tyler
  • "Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger." — Herbert Hoover
  • "There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock." — Warren G. Harding
  • "The object of love is to serve, not to win." — Woodrow Wilson
  • "Pessimism never won any battle." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • "Tell the truth, work hard and come to dinner on time." — Gerald Ford
  • "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." — Barack Obama
  • "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money." — James Madison
  • "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." — Millard Fillmore
  • "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." — Martin Van Buren
  • "In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins." — Ulysses S. Grant
  • "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." — John F. Kennedy

 

Presidential Quotes on Freedom

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Let’s get to know about freedom by reading these presidential quotes.

  • “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln.
  • “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.” — John Basil Barnhill.
  • “The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection … The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.” — John Stuart Mill.
  • “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” — Justice Louis Brandeis.
  • “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell.
  • “Those who nourish the hope that it will be possible to keep central government free of the corrupting tendencies of power and to staff it with a freedom-loving elite, overestimate the virtues of both the electorate and the elected, and underestimate the normative power of structural processes even over well-intended functionaries.” — Robert Nef.
  • “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” — Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952.
  • “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela.
  • “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” — Woodrow Wilson.
  • “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.” — H.L. Mencken.
  • “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” — Ronald Reagan.
  • “Certainly, one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.” — Hubert H. Humphrey.
  • “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw
  • “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” — Winston Churchill.

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