Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes about Life

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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Crazy, Military

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inspirational, Life, Basketball

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Responsibility, Exercise

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Change, Wise

1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Mean, Law

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inspirational, Life, Attitude

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love, Inspirational, Life

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Mean, Sunday

The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Determination, Heart

Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly