Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Americans never quit.

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.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

By indignities men come to dignities.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.