Favorite Presidential Quotes
Since it is Presidents Day – I thought I would share some of my favorite presidential quotes.
George Washington:
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Abraham Lincoln:
Perhaps a man’s character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
Lyndon Baines Johnson:
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: “President Can’t Swim.”
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
A Great Quote
I heard a great quote last night that I want to share:
It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Choices
A few nights ago, while watching a show on the History Channel I heard the following quote:
It is not the choice you want, but it’s the choice you have.
As soon as I heard it I decided it was a quote worthy of writing down. The context for the quote on the show: black slaves in the US deciding whether to stay enslaved and alive, or to attempt running away and fighting for the British (Revolutionary War) and getting freedom while also risking death if they were caught running away. Obviously both choices are hard, but one must be chosen. Also, like Kyle Reese once said:
The future is not set… there is no such thing as fate, but what we make for ourselves by our own will.
All of us will sooner or later get into situations that will produce choices we may not like, but we must remember…we always have a choice. The take home message for the day…don’t live with regret. (school, family, jobs, everything)
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LBJ Quotes for the Weekend
During college, I by chance, picked up a biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson and ended up reading in and many others in between games of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
By the end of the summer, I had a new and profound understanding of one of our greatest presidents of all time. After a hard week, I like to go back and find a quote or two to pick me up or remind me of someone who went through a lot more hard times than I hope to ever see.
This week, these quotes seemed to work:
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one. – LBJ
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. -LBJ
Have a great weekend!