Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
BalanceCrueltyKindnessResilienceToughness 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.
ArtConnectionCreativityInclusivityVitality Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
BalanceEducationFreedomGovernment StrengthPeople S Sovereignty The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
EqualityGenerosityHungerJusticeSustainability The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
MaturityPolitics I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
ActionGoalInitiativePlanning It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
AgricultureEconomic GrowthEmploymentProsperity Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
AchievementCreativityEffortHappinessJoy Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
CompetitionCooperationProgress Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
DemocracyEducationWisdom Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
ActionAdaptabilityEffort One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
BurdenLimitationOverload Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
ChangeEconomic SystemsHuman InfluenceShaping Systems We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
DevelopmentEducationFuture GenerationsPrioritizationResource Allocation The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
DictatorshipHypocrisyMedia Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
ActionAdaptabilityCourageInitiative Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
DevelopmentEvolutionNation BuildingProgress I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
DualityInner PowerOvercomingSpiritualityStrength Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
InitiativePreventionProactivityVigilance When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Economic ProgressIndividualismPolitical ProgressUnity In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Air QualityEnvironmental DegradationHuman Well-BeingNature And Human Life Support SystemsSustainable Resource Management A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.