If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.