Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I do not raise brats!

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Every President wants to do right.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

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.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.