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.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

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

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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?

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

Act, and God will act.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.