If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.