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

Famous Presidential Quotes part 2

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