In honor of Presidents Day, here are 14 presidential quotes
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
—John Quincy Adams
Image Source: George Peter Alexander Healy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Image Source: Vincenzo Laviosa (1889 – 1935) – photographer (Italian)
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[Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“America is too great for small dreams.”
—Ronald Reagan
Image Source: Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan, via Wikimedia Commons
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
—John F. Kennedy
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“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
—Benjamin Harrison
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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
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“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
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“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
—Ulysses S. Grant
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“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
—Thomas Jefferson
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“Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.”
—Richard Nixon
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“Nothing in this 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
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“You cannot fail, if you resolutely determine that you will not.”
—Abraham Lincoln
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“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
—George Washington
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