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

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

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.

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

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

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.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I was raised to be independent.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.