Happy Presidents’ Day! What does this holiday mean to you? To us, it provides a much-needed opportunity to pull inspiration and strength from the two great leaders whose birthdays are honored on this day – Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. And as Presidents’ Day tends to be a bit, well, overlooked (Do you even have the day off work? If you’re at work, are there even cupcakes there?)…we’ve chosen messages that apply to daily life and can help us be the best humans we can be, each and every day.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

-Washington

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

-Lincoln
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