Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. Barack Obama (44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017)
If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love. Barack Obama
It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. George Washington (first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797)
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams (second President of the United States from 1797-1801)
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809)
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829)
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945)
You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961)
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963)
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy
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
Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right. Lyndon B Johnson (36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969)
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. Ronald Reagan (40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921)
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955)
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990)
