Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

If I can be a leader, I will.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

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.

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.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Some day I shall be President.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

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.

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

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

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

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.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

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

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

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.