We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

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%.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Energy begets energy.

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 don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

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

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.