If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSMy toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSOccasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSNo man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSA desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDemocracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThe will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWe understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSRoll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSCourage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIt is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPower always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS