"A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning... But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes."
-Zachary Taylor
Change
"It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress."
-Millard Fillmore
Frivolity
"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion."
-Franklin Pierce
Leadership
"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
-James Buchanan
Character
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
Prosperity
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
-Andrew Johnson
Criticism
"The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized."
-Ulysses S. Grant
Patience
"Every expert was once a beginner."
-Rutherford B. Hayes
Spirit
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
-James A. Garfield
Perception
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
-Chester A. Arthur
Truth
"Above all, tell the truth."
-Grover Cleveland
Greed
"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
-Benjamin Harrison
Adversity
"In calm water every ship has a good captain."
-Grover Cleveland
Perseverance
"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest."
-William McKinley
Heroism
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Apathy
"Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them."
-William Howard Taft
Purpose
"You are not here merely to make a living... You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
-Woodrow Wilson
Goodness
"There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock."
-Warren G. Harding
Spirituality
"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
-Calvin Coolidge
Peace
"Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger."
-Herbert Hoover
