Bill Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 and had been a candidate for other political offices.
As president, Clinton presided over the most extended period of economic growth in American history. In 1996, he signed into law welfare reform legislation among the most sweeping in U.S. history. He signed into law a budget that eliminated the federal deficit for four consecutive years. Under his leadership, health care underwent significant reforms, especially expansions of coverage for children and long-term care patients through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the creation of Medicare Part D (among other programs).
Clinton presided over the most extended period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. During his tenure, there was less unemployment and inflation than at any other time since 1969.
Here are his most inspirational quotes that will give you powerful advice to make your life worth living.
43 Powerful Bill Clinton Quotes That Will Inspire You
1. “Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.” ~ Bill Clinton
2. “If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.” ~ Bill Clinton
3. “We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.” ~ Bill Clinton
4. “We’re using modern technology to revert to primitive kinds of human relations.” ~ Bill Clinton
5. “A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.” ~ Bill Clinton
6. “In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerrilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.” ~ Bill Clinton
7. “The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating.” ~ Bill Clinton
8. “In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.” ~ Bill Clinton
9. “We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.” ~ Bill Clinton
10. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” ~ Bill Clinton
11. “You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn’t make it an eagle.” ~ Bill Clinton
12. “When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” ~ Bill Clinton
13. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” ~ Bill Clinton
14. “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.” ~ Bill Clinton
15. “May God bless the United States of America and all who call it home.” ~ Bill Clinton
16. “There is a reason that the founders of our country put a civilian in charge of the military. Because it is not only about military effectiveness. It’s also about policy, about values, about what we stand for as a nation.” ~ Bill Clinton
17. “Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.” ~ Bill Clinton
18. “Mourn your losses later, after the fight’s over, Sergeant Melton used to say. When you’re in the fight, fight.” ~ Bill Clinton
19. “If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.” ~ Bill Clinton
20. “Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.” ~ Bill Clinton
21. “Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.” ~ Bill Clinton
22. “When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.” ~ Bill Clinton
23. “We cannot build our own future without helping others build theirs.” ~ Bill Clinton
24. “Character is a journey, not a destination.” ~ Bill Clinton
25. “There is nothing I value more in subordinates than their willingness to tell me I’m wrong, to challenge me to sharpen my decision making.” ~ Bill Clinton
26. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” ~ Bill Clinton
27. “The greatest lesson, especially for young people, is that, while bad things do happen to good people, we still have the freedom and responsibility to decide how to respond to justice.” ~ Bill Clinton
28. “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” ~ Bill Clinton
29. “Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.” ~ Bill Clinton
30. “For too long, politicians told most of us what’s wrong with America is the rest of us. Them. Them the minorities. Them the liberals. Them, them, them. But there is no them; there’s only us One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all.” ~ Bill Clinton
31. “Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle.” ~ Bill Clinton
32. “The world has always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” ~ Bill Clinton
33. “You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.” ~ Bill Clinton
34. “Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.” ~ Bill Clinton
35. “When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.” ~ Bill Clinton
36. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” ~ Bill Clinton
37. “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.” ~ Bill Clinton
38. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” ~ Bill Clinton
39. “We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.’” – Bill Clinton
40. “Freedom is difficult, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.” ~ Bill Clinton
41. “Surrounding yourself with sycophants and bootlickers is the surest route to failure.” ~ Bill Clinton
42. “Nobody does anything for nothing.” ~ Bill Clinton
43. “Think how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, Who can we help today and how can we do it? instead of Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?” ~ Bill Clinton
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