Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Boldness be my friend.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Power is competence.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I love women with attitude.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Don’t ever play yourself.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.