George Washington

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

George Washington

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

George Washington

The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

George Washington

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

George Washington

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

George Washington

A man’s intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

George Washington

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

George Washington