Dwight D.Eisenhower Quotes and its meanings

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.