Example is leadership.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

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.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

You have to be someone.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Disagreement is something normal.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.