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

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

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.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Success is the child of audacity.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.