Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.