A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

How can we help President Obama?

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

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

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.