Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
EducationFuture GenerationsDevelopmentResource AllocationPrioritization The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
EqualityJusticeHungerSustainabilityGenerosity 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.
HappinessAchievementCreativityJoyEffort Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
HypocrisyDictatorshipMedia 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.
OverloadBurdenLimitation Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
KindnessCrueltyToughnessResilienceBalance 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.
Human InfluenceEconomic SystemsChangeShaping Systems We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
CooperationCompetitionProgress 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.
ArtConnectionInclusivityCreativityVitality 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.
ProgressDevelopmentNation BuildingEvolution I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
ProsperityEmploymentAgricultureEconomic Growth Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
ActionPlanningInitiativeGoal 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.
PreventionProactivityVigilanceInitiative When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
ActionEffortAdaptability 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.
PoliticsMaturity I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
DemocracyEducationWisdom Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
SpiritualityStrengthOvercomingInner PowerDuality Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
FreedomGovernment StrengthEducationPeople's SovereigntyBalance 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.
ActionAdaptabilityCourageInitiative Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
IndividualismUnityEconomic ProgressPolitical Progress 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.
ActionPerseveranceTrial and Error It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Economic ProgressPolitical ProgressInterdependence In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Environmental DegradationAir QualityHuman 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.
FlexibilityGovernmentResilienceGovernanceInnovation The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
FavorHuman ProgressPurposeChangeEmbodiment Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
NationalismPeaceValueConcern Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
RelationshipPeaceCoexistenceSurvivalUnity If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
TaxesAbility to PayPrinciple Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
AttackInfamyTriumphResilienceFaith Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
StagnationResistance A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Environmental DestructionConsequences of ActionRecognition of ImpactSustainabilityNational Survival The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
EconomicsHuman AgencyJusticeHuman Impact But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
GovernmentProposingAuthorityResponsibility It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
ProgressStagnationInitiativeChangeGrowth There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
AmbitionSecurityMaterialismFulfillmentPersonal Growth We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Progress The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.