People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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

God’s desire is that we excel.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Music is really driving my whole life.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

My drive is other people’s success.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Success is the child of audacity.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.