Presidential Quotes for Presidents Day

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

- - John Quincy Adams

“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.”

--Thomas Jefferson

“It’s not the years in your life that count

It’s the life in your years.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

 Theodore Roosevelt

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

-Harry Truman

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

-- John F Kennedy

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

 --Theodore Roosevelt

“You can accomplish much if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

--Ronald Reagan

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

--Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

—Franklin D Roosevelt

"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”

-        Calvin Coolidge

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

-        - Harry Truman

Let me know if you have a favorite quote to add to this list.