Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Action expresses priorities.

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

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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.

There is no substitute for victory.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.