George Washington has been a political leader, army general, statesman, and Founding Father that also functioned as the president of America from 1789 to 1797. He headed Patriot forces to triumph in the Country’s War for Freedom.
1. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
2. 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
3.“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
4.“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.”
5.“It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
6. “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
7.“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
8.”Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.”
9.”I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
10.”There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
11.”Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
12.”Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
13.”Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ”
14.“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”
15.”Happiness depends more on the internal frame of a person’s mind than on the externals in the world.”
16.”The turning points of lives are not great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”
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