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Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you.

Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Vision with action can change the world.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

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

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

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.

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

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

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 cannot all be masters.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.