My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

The only shame is to have none.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Some day I shall be President.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

People want you to fail.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

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

Before all else, be armed.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.