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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

We can influence people for bad or good.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

We cannot all be masters.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.

We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.