Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

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.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

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

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.