Dear tricia1234-ga;
Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. If I
counted correctly, I found 140 quotes from the men you request. These
include quotes on matters pertaining to life, living life and sage
advice for a good life as well as being, becoming or remaining
successful in a variety of pursuits.
Quotes from other Presidents, arranged by topic (Life and Success),
can be found at the bottom of this page and in all, there are well
over the 150 you requested:
GEORGE WASHINGTON
On Life ?
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire
called conscience
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a
vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests
and despises it.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and
withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the
appellation.
On Success ?
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the
rest is in the hands of God.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be short and comprehensive.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to
my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral,
intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and
harmony with all.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from
past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought
experience.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable,
procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
On Life ?
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the
life in your years.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses
my idea of democracy.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know
what his grandson will be.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They
have clung to me all my life.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can
never regain their respect and esteem.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we
could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let
him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example
assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to
the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect
some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
On Success ?
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any other.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and
remove all doubt.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't
very new at all.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is
what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand
with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at
the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least
have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked
a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give
him a chance.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run
away, it's best to let him run.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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TEDDY ROOSEVELT
On Life ?
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an
individual and of nations alike.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about
what I think of what I do! That is character!
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your
trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a
name worth remembering.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his
well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going
higher than a basement.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,
peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of
soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease
whose name is worth remembering.
On Success ?
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but
if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Far better is it 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 a gray
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions
speak to all mankind.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I
pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social
scale he may regard himself as being.
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of
altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is
accomplished by the man who does things.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and
resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got
to start young.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to
do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
with them while they do it.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is
knowing how to get along with people.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are
thinking most often in the loudest voice.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY
On Life ?
A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of
obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human
morality.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past
has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or
regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have
forgotten.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military
service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's
military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And
therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein
Berliner!"
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it
be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this
administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But
let us begin.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that
life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more
advanced than ours.
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father,
a different wife and a different religion.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the
courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of
triumph and tragedy.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the
power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human
life.
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some
men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some
are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal
life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the
courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of
triumph and tragedy.
Once you say you're going to settle for second best, that's what
happens to you in life.
On Success ?
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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RONALD REAGAN
On Life ?
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government
programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government
bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this
earth!
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer
to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live
for the future.
On Success ?
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate
authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided
upon is being carried out.
Trust, but verify.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON
On Life ?
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine
of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of
life is sunshine.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,
stand like a rock.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation
which give you happiness.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of
hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in
which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good
conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is
the first and only object of good government.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
On success ?
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long
for in dreams, yet still include them all.
Delay is preferable to error.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of
virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may
be done if we are always doing.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate
and define you.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only
sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized
and armed militia is their best security.
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.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain
always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish
we may be permitted to pursue it.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when
one will do.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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OTHERS
On Life ?
Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical
sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It
has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is
written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the
embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. ~Woodrow Wilson
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms
is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its
laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds
of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we
would only sit down and keep still." ~Calvin Coolidge
I like the job I have now, but if I had my life to live over again,
I'd like to have ended up a sportswriter. ~Richard Nixon
The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of
their lives. ~Bill Clinton
Peace is the goal of my life. I'd rather have lasting peace in the
world that be President. I wish for peace, I work for peace and I pray
for peace continually. ~Harry Truman
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
~James Garfield
On Success ?
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent. ~Calvin Coolidge
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 Ford
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even
better than you think you can. ~Jimmy Carter
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