If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Passions are the gales of life.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

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

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.