Hardest Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson Download Open image “A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” — Lyndon B. Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hardest Politics President Right
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne Copy Share Image
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are just some things about being president that are difficult. — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let… — Kim Alexis Copy Share
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
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Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. — Billy West Copy Share Image
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I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image