Franklin D Roosevelt on Deep Work Quotes

"Confidence is the only bond that can unite a people."

"The joy of work is the only thing that will make you happy over the long run."

"No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is the President of all the people."

"The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"A point has been reached where the people of the country must decide whether they will continue to be victims of a system of drift."

"Great power involves great responsibility."

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics."

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

"Industrial progress is not the result of a single mind but of the concentrated effort of many minds working in harmony."

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."

"Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain."

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."

"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further."

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"I am not the smartest man in the world, but I can surely pick smart colleagues."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."

"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background."