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I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It might involve a little bit of sacrifice and discipline, but, and this is so crucial to understand, that participation has given me back so, so much more than I have given it.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

If we don't own our manhood someone else will.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.