Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

I’m about being the best.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Power is competence.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

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

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

We all have the duty to do good.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Don’t ever play yourself.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.