There is an article by Katie Sanders at Politifact on May 1, 2017 titled Ivanka Trump’s new book includes quote falsely and frequently attributed to John Quincy Adams. He was our sixth president and lived from 1767 to 1848. That quote is:
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
The article notes that:
“But we did talk with someone well-versed in his considerable output: Sara Martin, editor in chief of The Adams Papers of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
‘I am confident that this is not a JQA quotation,’ she said. ‘It neither sounds like him, nor is it really the vein of political thought that he typically expresses in his quotations.’ “
Katie references another article by Garson O’Toole at Quote Investigator on July 3, 2011 titled If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. Garson notes that the supposed quote first appeared in a 2002 book! He says it may have been derived from this 1997 quote by Dolly Parton (born in 1946):
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
The claimed Adams quote recently turned up again on July 6, 2024 in a Brian Tracy blog post titled 117 Leadership quotes for Inspiration, where it was the second quote.
A painting of John Quincy Adams and a photo of Dolly Parton came from Wikimedia Commons.
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