One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

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

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

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

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

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I can move any crowd.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Leadership is influence.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.