Gerald R. Ford Quotes

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing you have to keep embracing. You have to keep saying, I actually don't know, and going out is going to tell me something every time.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

It is like a wide embrace, gathering together all those who have searched for words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets gone before, ’ it destroys no other creeds and leaves all doors open...

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

I have to take criticisms, and I will continue to take them for what I think is best for the team.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.

I take constructive criticism really well.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.