To lead people walk behind them.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Success is not a stop sign.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I always make my dreams into goals.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

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.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

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

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

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

Hope is a waking dream.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.