DWIGHT D EISENHOWER FAMOUS QUOTES

Here are 23 famous quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower:

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.”

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”

“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed — else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” SHORT QUOTES ABOUT FALLING FOR SOMEONE

“Is there anything more important than what we have said here tonight? Yes, there is. That is what you do after you leave here.”

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”

“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”

“In the final choice, a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains.”

“The older I get, the fewer people I want to run my life.”

“Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.”

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”