Quotes from John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
— John Quincy Adams
All that I am my mother made me.
— John Quincy Adams
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
— John Quincy Adams
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
— John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
— John Quincy Adams
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
— John Quincy Adams
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
— John Quincy Adams
Whoever tells the best story wins.
— John Quincy Adams
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams