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

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

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

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

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

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I’m never nervous.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

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.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Every President wants to do right.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

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.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.