The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

Every President wants to do right.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

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

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I am a grafter.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

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.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.