BEST 30 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES OF GEORGE WASINGTON

Motivational quotes attributed to George Washington:
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."

"Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"A people… who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."

"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"The mind that is conscious of its own rectitude, cannot attempt to palliate its errors."

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

"I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world."