If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Leadership is influence.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

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.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

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

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

I’m never nervous.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

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

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.