Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. – We are the ones We’ve been waiting for. – We are the change that we seek.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and engagement of all.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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.