If I can be a leader, I will.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

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

The harder I work, the luckier I become.