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Here are Ten Quotes from U.S. Presidents to Inspire Your Teaching Practice. Happy Presidents Day!

1. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time." We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have so little, who've been told that they cannot have what they dream, that they cannot be what they imagine. Yes, they can. - Barack Obama.


2. "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." - Bill Clinton


3. "Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack." - Gerald Ford


4. "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman


5. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today" - Franklin D. Roosevelt


6. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt


7. "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." - Abraham Lincoln


8. "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams


9. "Pessimism never won any battle." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


10. "99% of failures come from people who make excuses." - George Washington










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