Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

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.

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.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

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.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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?

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

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

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

From caring comes courage.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I only want my work to make people happy.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.