Harry Truman Quotes

The buck stops here.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

Actions are the seed of fate.

The best advice I can give you is to be honest, honest in your dealings with one another, honest with the people of your country, and honest with yourself.

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Men make history and not the other way around.

We must build a new world, a far better world, a world in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

We must remember that our greatest resource is our children and grandchildren, and that we must always look forward with confidence, faith, and determination to their future and to their future prospects.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Harry Truman Quotes part 2

We must remember that malice is not the only motive of those who excite discontent.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Carry the battle to them.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Study men, not historians.

I have long felt that the only way to retain any dignity in this job is to refuse to be drawn into any kind of controversy.

There’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

The buck stops here.

Children, take notice of this little trick, it may save your life some day.

Actions are the seed of fate.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one.

The reward of suffering is experience.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

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

My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily – whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence – whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Patient determination can win success in the end.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.

You will never get out of there alive.

I do not have respect for the idea that religion and morality go together. I think they’re two different things.

My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.

There is nothing new in the world except the history that you do not know.

The reward of suffering is experience.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.