Washington Quotes on Leadership
"I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving."
Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment | Thursday, January 08, 1756
More"...every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."
Letter to Benedict Arnold | Thursday, September 14, 1775
More"...arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"Circular to the States" | Sunday, June 08, 1783
More"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a powe..."
Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham | Saturday, January 09, 1790
More"I have diligently sought the public welfare; and have endeavoured to inculcate the same principles in all that are under me. These reflections will be a cordial to my mind as long as I am able to dist..."
Letter to the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, John Robinson | Sunday, April 18, 1756
More"Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title."
Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment | Thursday, January 08, 1756
More"...a people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove."
George Washington to Major General Stirling | Sunday, January 19, 1777
More"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and propor..."
Letter to Major General Philip Schuyler | Tuesday, July 15, 1777
More"..when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly"
Letter to Edmund Pendleton | Thursday, January 22, 1795
More"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action."
Address to Congress resigning his commission | Tuesday, December 23, 1783
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