At one point he decided enough was enough.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

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

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

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

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

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

The only way round is through.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.