Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I really have no interest in myself.

I have wasted my hours.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

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.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.