One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Improvement begins with I.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Success isnt a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The fewer the facts the stronger the opinion.

In life as in football you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it.

People with tact have less to retract.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.