You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Success is the child of audacity.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Only you can control your future.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.