Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Dwight D. Eisenhower was best known as Supreme commander of Allied forces in WWII.

He was the thirty-fourth President of the United States. He was in office from 1953 to 1961.

To quote Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower :

Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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.
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower