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

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

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.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Never complain. Never explain.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Some day I shall be President.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.