No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

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

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

Some day I shall be President.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

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’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

What keeps me going is goals.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.