Motivation Monday, President's Day Edition: Top 10 Motivational Presidential Quotes

Happy President's Day!  

I hope you, unlike me, have the day off and are enjoying a three-day weekend.  In honor of President's Day, here's my unofficial list of the

Top 10 Motivational Presidential Quotes

10.  "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

9.  "The best way not to feel hopeless is to get up and do something.  Don't wait for good things to happen to you.  If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
-Barack Obama

8.  "We grow great by dreams.  All big men are dreamers."
-Woodrow Wilson

7.  "Believe you can and you're halfway there."
-Theodore Roosevelt

6.  "A man is not finished when he is defeated; he's finished when he quits."
-Richard Nixon

5.  "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."
-William Clinton

4.  "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country."
-John F. Kennedy

3.  "There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, not barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
-Ronald Reagan

2.  "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and and optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
-Harry Truman

1.  "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  

-Abraham Lincoln