Presidential Advice

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." {Bill Clinton}

"All of you know I'm having to become quite an expert in this business of asking for forgiveness. And I ----. It gets a little easier the more you do it. And if you have a family, an Administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice. But I have to tell that in these last days it has come home to me again, something I first learned as President, but it wasn't burned in my bones -- and that is that in order to get it, you have to be willing to give it. And all of us -- the anger, the resentment, the bitterness, the desire for recrimination against people you believe have wronged you -- they harden the heart and deaden the spirit and lead to self-inflicted wounds. And so it is important that we are able to forgive those we believe have wronged us, even as we ask for forgiveness from people we have wronged. And I heard that first -- first -- in the Civil Rights Movement. Love thy neighbor as thyself." {Bill Clinton}

“Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger.” {Herbert Hoover}

“. . . the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” {Franklin D. Roosevelt}

“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” {Dwight D. Eisenhower}

"Every expert was once a beginner." {Rutherford B. Hayes}

"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." {Franklin D. Roosevelt}

"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." {Richard M. Nixon}

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." {Thomas Jefferson}

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." {Richard Nixon}

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