Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

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.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

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

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

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.

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.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

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.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.