I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Africa is on the rise.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

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

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

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.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.