Never fail to honor your people. When a true leader’s work is done and his aims fulfilled, they should say and believe, ‘we did this ourselves’.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

I let Ike run the country and I ran the home.