Best Quotations From Past American Great Leaders

There are many ways to share the truth. In this article, I want to share some truths with you by providing us with some thoughtfully selected best quotations from past American prominent leaders. Personally, I like quotes, because most quotes are words of wisdom, revelation, and concise knowledge, and vision. The best quotations from past American leaders has much to teach us about leading with morality or what I called leading with the heart.

I selected the best quotations for us to reflect on during these days of all kinds of political and leadership chaos. There has been so much unrest, anger, confusion, and mistrust, politically, economically, and even spiritually around the world. Reading some of these quotes from the past influential leaders of old will be an excellent intellectual exercise. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/better-perfect/201702/inspirational-quotes-the-45-us-presidents

These selected quotes are educating, motivating, and informative. Therefore, browse through, and I believe that you will find them refreshing and informative. As you can see, each quote has the name of the author. I hope it will be useful to you as they are to me. Let us delve into the voice of truth from men of moral and political courage in history. Enjoy the read! The best quotations from American outstanding leaders are a must-read!

“ I had rather starved and not keep the privilege of speaking the truth, then of holding all the offices that capital as to give from the presidency down.” BROOKS ADAMS.

“The deepest truth are best read between the lines, and for the most part, refuse to be written.” BROSON ALCOTT.

“Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, make the life good for anything.”

“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.” HENRY WARD BECECHER.

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in the excess of the demand.” JOSH BILLINGS.

“The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.” JAMES FENIMORE.

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” ALBERT EEINSTEINS.

Every truth leads in another. The bud estrudees the old leaf, and every truth brings that which will supplant it.” RALPH WALD EERRSON.

Men of the world value truth, in proportion to their ability not by its sacredness, but for its convenience.” RALPH WAODO EMERSON.

“Half the Truth is often a great Lie.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” ROBERT FROST.

WISDOM – Best quotations to reflect upon .

“Nothing astonied men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” RALPH WALDO.

“The Doors of Wisdom is are never shut”. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, another list of

things that everybody says and nobody thinks?” OLIVER WENDELL.

“It is the province of knowledge to speak and is the privilege of wisdom to listen” OLIVER WENDELL.

“Wise man; one who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.” Ibid.

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” WILLIAM JAMES.

“The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.” THOMAS JEFFERSON.

“The years teach much what the days never know.” RALPH WALDO.

CONDUCT

“Decency – generosity – cooperation – assistance in trouble  — devotion to duty; these are the things that are of greater value than surface appearances and customs”. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Best quotations to reflect upon.

“There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. RALPH WAPDP EMERSON.

“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.” RALPH WALDO/

“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree.” THOMAS JEFFERSON.

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few he well tried before you give them your confidence.” GEORGE WASHINGTON.

FREEDOM – Best quotations to reflect upon. https://wisdomquotes.com/words-of-wisdom/

“Every generation must wage a  new war for freedom against new forces that seek through new device to enslave mankind.” 

ADVERSITY

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. – ANONYMOUS.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness — harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.  WILLIAM CULLEN BRANT.

Bad times have a scientific value. There are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The nearer the dawn and the darker the night.    Ibid. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/best-quotes

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.   JAMES RUSSELL.

When a man is finally boxed and he has no choice, he begins to decorate his box.   JOHN STEINBECK.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; /for the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.  ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Trust men, and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.  RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. No man has learned anything right until he knows that every day is Dooms-day.   RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Beware of the young Doctor, & the old Barber REFLECTION, AND WISDOM

Teach your child to hold his tongue, he’ll learn fast enough to speak.  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

If you will keep your secrets from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.  WALTER HAGEN.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act/ Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.   THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Let us look into the minds of our past prominent politicians, thinkers, leaders, and philosophers. As we search for answers in these days of confusion, chaos, division, hate, and the global crisis. Let’ the voice of truth, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding guide us, that we will not get deceived or lose our great freedom. Therefore, let us listen up! The best quotations from American past prominent leaders have a great value and remember Truth has no expiration date!

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