The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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.

I’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.

The 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.

Scientists 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.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Without 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.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

I 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.

Some 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.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

We 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.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

But 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.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Some day I shall be President.

On 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.

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

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

The 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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I 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.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

It 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.

Rhetoric 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.

We 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.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

When 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.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Since 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.

Constant 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.

The 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?

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I 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.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

What 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.

Being 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.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

If 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.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

My 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.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.