Motivational Quotes

America

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about America

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

Bobcat Goldthwaite

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

King George III

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

Keynes, John Maynard

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Gunther, John

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Wilde, Oscar

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I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

Lewis, Wyndham

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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.

London, Meyer

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America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.

Le Monde

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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Barack Obama

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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Woodrow Wilson

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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?

Nixon, Richard M.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoover

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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.

Thomas, Norman

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The American people abhor a vacuum.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

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In America everything's about who's number one today.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Ziglar, Zig

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There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.

Bono

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Fuentes, Carlos

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Iyer, Pico

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.

Barack Obama

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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

Jeffery F. Chamberlain

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This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Steinbeck, John

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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Miller, Henry

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The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

Palmer, Vance

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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Mccarthy, Mary

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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Rogers, Will

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Bloom, Allan

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

Lewis, Sinclair

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Byron, Lord

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Macleish, Archibald

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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Wharton, Edith

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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Bailey, Philip James

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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.

Reagan, Ronald