Famous Presidential Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy
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
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – George Washington
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – John F. Kennedy
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. – John F. Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. – Abraham Lincoln
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. – Jimmy Carter
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – George Washington
I would rather be right than be President. – Henry Clay
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. – Theodore Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. – Barack Obama
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – George Washington
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do. – John Adams
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
I hold nothing but contempt for a country that can allow its citizens to be put in jail because they are too poor to afford to defend themselves. – John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. – John F. Kennedy
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves. – Barbara Bush
You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. – Michael Bloomberg
We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us. – Ronald Reagan
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Harry S. Truman
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. – Jimmy Carter
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. – John F. Kennedy
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. – John F. Kennedy
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. – Arnold H. Glasow
My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it — so long as we seize it together. – Barack Obama
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. – Henry Ward Beecher
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. – Mother Teresa
The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I’d add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others. – George H.W. Bush
My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be. – Wayne Dyer
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. – Abraham Lincoln