100 Powerful and Inspirational George Washington Quotes | Best George Washington Quotes |
POWERFUL AND INSPIRATIONAL GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES | 2022 |
1) ”It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
2) ”Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
3) ”99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
4) ”I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
5) ”It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
6) ”If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
7) ”My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
8) ”A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
9) ”Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.”
10) ”But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
11) ”A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
12) ”Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”-
13) ”Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for this better to be alone than in bad company.”
14) ”Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
15) ”A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
16) ”Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
17) ”Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”
18) ”Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
19) ”the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
20) ”Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
21) ”The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”
22) ”If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
23) ”To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
24) ”I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
25) ”Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
26) ”Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.”
27) ”We must consult our means rather than our wishes.”
28) ”Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.”
29) ”Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
30) ”To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.”
31) ”Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”
32) ”The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
33) ”no punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.”
34) ”I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
35) ”if to please the people,we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.”
36) ”Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”
37) ”It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.”
38) ”There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
39) ”Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
40) ”Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
41) ”Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”
42) ”Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.”
43) ”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.”
44) ”There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”
45) ”Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”
46) ”It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
47) ”No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”
48) ”A bad war is fought with a good mind.”
49) ”Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.”
50) ”I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!”
51) ”Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”
52) ”A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
53) ”The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.”
54) ”One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.”
55) ”It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”
56) ”Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.”
57) ”We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.”
58) ”My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”
59) ”A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built”
60) ”The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.”
61) ”To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
62) ”Never attach where it is obvious.”
63) ”Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”
64) ”Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
65) ”Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.”
66) ”Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.”
67) ”No morn has ever dawned more favorably than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present. Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.”
68) ”System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.”
69) ”Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.”
70) ”Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.”
71) ”Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.”
72) ”you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
73) ”Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.”
74) ”heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.”
75) ”The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it’s interest.”
76) ”Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
77) ”Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.”
78) ”Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.”
79) ”Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”
80) ”Faith, as well intention as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.”
81) ”It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
82) ”All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.”
83) ”Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
84) ”Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
85) ”Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.”
86) ”Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.”
87) ”To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”
88) ”Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.”
89) ”If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.”
90) ”The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.”
91) ”Its good to live alone than to live in a bad company.”
92) ”the great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”
93) ”A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.”
94) ”I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”
95) ”It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
96) ”Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”
97) ”Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”
98) ”It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
99) ”99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.”
100) ”Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.”
