The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

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.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.