| President's Day is celebrated on the third Monday in | | | | planted the seeds of despotism around your own |
| February, and this year it falls on February 19, 2006. | | | | doors." - Abraham Lincoln |
| To celebrate President's Day, I've collected some of | | | | 8. "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough |
| my favorite leadership quotes from US Presidents. | | | | to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all |
| The leaders of this country have had some | | | | titles, the character of an honest man." - George |
| extraordinary obstacles to overcome and they've | | | | Washington |
| had to rise to meet many challenges. They have left | | | | 9. "The truth is that all men having power ought to |
| little bits of wisdom along the way I hope you'll find | | | | be mistrusted." - James Madison |
| interesting. | | | | 10. " 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, |
| So here are some of my favorite leadership quotes | | | | than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham |
| from US Presidents: | | | | Lincoln |
| 1. "Patience and perseverance have a magical affect | | | | 11. "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. |
| before which difficulties disappear and obstacles | | | | Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas |
| vanish." - John Quincy Adams | | | | Jefferson |
| 2. "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the | | | | 12. "My observation is that whenever one person is |
| thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt | | | | found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is |
| 3. "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all | | | | worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done |
| that I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson | | | | at all if three or more are employed therein." - |
| 4. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of | | | | George Washington |
| wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson | | | | 13. "There are two educations. One should teach us |
| 5. "As we express our gratitude, we must never | | | | how to make a living and the other how to live." - |
| forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter | | | | John Adams |
| words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy | | | | 14. "Change is the law of life. And those who look |
| 6. "No man is above the law and no man is below it; | | | | only to the past or present are certain to miss the |
| nor do we ask any man's permission when we | | | | future." - John F. Kennedy |
| require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is | | | | 15. "You are not here merely to make a living. You |
| demanded as a right; not asked as a favor." - | | | | are here in order to enable the world to live more |
| Theodore Roosevelt | | | | amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope |
| 7. "Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit | | | | and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, |
| which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all | | | | and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. |
| lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have | | | | |