35 John Quincy Adams Quotes On Success

John Quincy Adams was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams also served as an ambassador, and as a member of the United States Congress representing Massachusetts in both chambers. He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801, and First Lady Abigail Adams. Initially a Federalist like his father, he won election to the presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and in the mid-1830s became affiliated with the Whig Party. May these John Quincy Adams Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “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

2. “May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.” John Quincy Adams

3. “The nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.” John Quincy Adams

4. “In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.” John Quincy Adams

5. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

6. “To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.” John Quincy Adams

7. “I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.” John Quincy Adams

8. “This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.” John Quincy Adams

9.“The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.” John Quincy Adams

10. “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” John Quincy Adams

11. “It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?” John Quincy Adams

12. “From the experience of the past, we derive instructive lessons for the future.” John Quincy Adams

13. “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

14. “I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.” John Quincy Adams

15. “America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” John Quincy Adams

16. “Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.” John Quincy Adams

17. “Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.” John Quincy Adams

18. “Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.” John Quincy Adams

19. “Duty is ours, results are God’s.” John Quincy Adams

20. “All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.” John Quincy Adams

21. “Individual liberty is individual power.” John Quincy Adams

22. “Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” John Quincy Adams

23. “The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.” John Quincy Adams

24. “America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.” John Quincy Adams

25. “Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.” John Quincy Adams

26. “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

27. “In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.” John Quincy Adams

28. “Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” John Quincy Adams

29. “The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.” John Quincy Adams

30. “It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.” John Quincy Adams

31. “Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.” John Quincy Adams

32. “We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.” John Quincy Adams

33. “To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is… the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.” John Quincy Adams

34. “Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.” John Quincy Adams

35. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” John Quincy Adams

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