To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I kinda live where I find myself.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I’m not really book-smart.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.