Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Work is love made visible.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.