Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

The best way out is always through.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

I like to work and am a focused person.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.