The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Be the chief but never the lord.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

It sure is hell to be president.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

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.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.