Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes

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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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