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.

All men hate the nagging.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Study men, not historians.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

Respect the burden.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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