I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The little man is still a man.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Success has always been a great liar.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Freedom is not enough.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Control is the source of strategic power.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.