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.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

We all have the duty to do good.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.