Top 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Plans are useless, but planning is essential.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

2. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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3. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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4. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

5. “The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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6. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. “Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

8. “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. “Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

10. “Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

11. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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12. “The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

13. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

14. “For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

15. “Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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17. “Pessimism never won any battle.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

18. “Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it’s worthless.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

19. “Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

20. “By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

21. “Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

22. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

23. “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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24. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

25. “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

26. “Unless we progress, we regress.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

27. “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

28. “The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

29. “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

30. “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

31. “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

32. “Take your job seriously, but not yourself.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

33. “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

34. “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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35. “The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

36. “No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

37. “The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

38. “Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

39. “The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

40. “Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

41. “The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

42. “God, I hate the Germans...”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

43. “We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

44. “I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

45. “We will accept nothing less than full Victory!”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

46. “It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

47. “Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

48. “Beware the military-industrial complex.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

49. “Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

50. “Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower