I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

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

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

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

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Passions are the gales of life.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.