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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the

character of an honest man.—George Washington

Nebraska Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Spring 2014 Conference

April 10-11, 2014

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice Presidency) that ever the invention of man

contrived or his imagination conceived.—John Adams


April 10-11, 2014

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.—Thomas Jefferson


April 10-11, 2014

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.—James Madison


April 10-11, 2014

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.—James Monroe


April 10-11, 2014

If your actions inspire others to

dream more, learn more, do

more and become more,

you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams


April 10-11, 2014

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.—Andrew Jackson


April 10-11, 2014

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. —Martin Van Buren


April 10-11, 2014

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed-William Henry Harrison


April 10-11, 2014

I can never consent to being dictated to.—John Tyler


April 10-11, 2014

I am heartily rejoiced that my

term is so near its close. I will soon

cease to be a servant and will

become a sovereign.

No president who performs his duties

faithfully and conscientiously

can have any leisure.

James K. Polk


April 10-11, 2014

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.—Zachary Taylor


April 10-11, 2014

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are

betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.—Millard Fillmore


April 10-11, 2014

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.—Franklin Pierce


April 10-11, 2014

What is right and what is

practicable are two different

things.

Whatever the result may be, I

shall carry to my grave the

consciousness that I at least

meant well for my country.

James Buchanan


April 10-11, 2014

My great concern is not whether you

have failed, but whether you are

content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity,

but if you want to test a man's

character, give him power.


April 10-11, 2014

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.—Andrew Johnson


April 10-11, 2014

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.—Ulysses S. Grant


April 10-11, 2014

Must swear off from swearing.

Bad habit.

…I was ready to resort to unusual measures and to risk my own standing and reputation within my party and the country.

Rutherford Hayes


April 10-11, 2014

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.—James A. Garfield


April 10-11, 2014

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant…probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper,

patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.—Chester Arthur


April 10-11, 2014

Above all, tell the truth

A man is known by the company he

keeps, and also by the company from

which he is kept out.

Grover Cleveland


April 10-11, 2014

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.—Benjamin Harrison


April 10-11, 2014

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.—William McKinley


April 10-11, 2014

The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does

nothing.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt


April 10-11, 2014

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.—William H. Taft


April 10-11, 2014

Woodrow Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to

change something.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.


April 10-11, 2014

My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies . . . but my damn friends, they're the ones that keep

me walking the floor nights.—Warren Harding


April 10-11, 2014

It takes a great man to be a good

listener.

We cannot do everything at once,

but we can do something at once.

Calvin Coolidge


April 10-11, 2014

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing

what to do next.

Words without actions are the

assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoover


April 10-11, 2014

A good leader can't get too far

ahead of his followers.

It is common sense to take a method

and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try

something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


April 10-11, 2014

It is amazing what you can accomplish

if you do not care who gets the credit.

All my life, whenever it comes

time to make a decision, I make it

and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman


April 10-11, 2014

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you

want done because he wants to do it.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


April 10-11, 2014

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Leadership and learning are

indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy


April 10-11, 2014

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.—Lyndon B. Johnson


April 10-11, 2014

Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you

don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.—Richard Nixon


April 10-11, 2014

The ultimate test of leadership is not the polls you take, but the risks you take. In the short run, some risks prove overwhelming. Political courage

can be self-defeating. But the greatest defeat of all would be to live without courage, for that would hardly be living at all.—Gerald Ford


April 10-11, 2014

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.—Jimmy Carter


April 10-11, 2014

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be

undaunted when the going gets rough.—Ronald Reagan


April 10-11, 2014

We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things,

diversity; in all things, generosity. —George H. W. Bush


April 10-11, 2014

Being President is like being the

groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are

a lot of people under you, but none

of them are listening.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you

learn from them, you'll be a better

person.

William J. Clinton


April 10-11, 2014

I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.—George W. Bush


April 10-11, 2014

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.—Barack

Obama


April 10-11, 2014

“Now look, you cannot start off with the feeling that the job must run you; that you have to do it this way because this is the way Truman did

it.”

—Advice given to President-Elect John F. Kennedy in 1960 by Columbia Political Science Professor Richard Neustadt


April 10-11, 2014

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