To lead people walk behind them.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I always make my dreams into goals.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

God helps those who help themselves.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The wisest have the most authority.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

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

Applause waits on success.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

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.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

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 more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.