The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian TracyI’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.
George H. W. BushThe presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. JohnsonScientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
Narendra ModiPatience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
Elon MuskFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil GibranWithout a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
Thomas SowellLeadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.
Jocko WillinkAct well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander PopeEducation forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopeI would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. RockefellerGod, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund BurkeSome people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
Greta ThunbergThe issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.
Michelle ObamaIf you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.
Ruth Bader GinsburgAs his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
George H. W. BushWhen it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.
Michelle ObamaDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George WashingtonOur country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.
John KennedyWe can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Barack ObamaWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Jean-Paul SartreBut let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. BushYou gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
DJ KhaledSome day I shall be President.
Abraham LincolnOn the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Ernest HemingwayFor Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander PopeWhen I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis PresleyThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda MeirI have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.
Jurgen KloppI know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth IIAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine AlbrightIt is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
Che GuevaraRhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore RooseveltWe should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
Jordan PetersonWhen you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
Joyce MeyerA disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund BurkeSince it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo MachiavelliConstant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma GandhiThe other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan QuayleI believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. RockefellerNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham LincolnLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.
Conor McGregorWe still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret AtwoodWhat I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
Barack ObamaBeing president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.
Michelle ObamaIt is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson MandelaIn politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin DisraeliWe must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
Herbert HooverIf you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.
Jocko WillinkPolitics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston ChurchillMy belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.
Robert Baden-PowellWhat most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
VoltaireWhen you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Robert Baden-PowellOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato