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First Lady Inspirational Quotes (120)

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Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
Jackie Kennedy
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Pearls are always appropriate.
Jackie Kennedy
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
Jackie Kennedy
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Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Martha Washington
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If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
Jackie Kennedy
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy
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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.
Jackie Kennedy
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
Abigail Adams
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
Abigail Adams
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
Abigail Adams
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
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No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.
Mary Todd Lincoln
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I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
Jackie Kennedy
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If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
Jackie Kennedy
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
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If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
Jackie Kennedy
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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.
Martha Washington
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