Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I have learned that what is essential can sometimes be invisible to the eye. That’s where discernment comes in.

Dream won’t work unless you do.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Vision is not enough – it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

The future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart, no matter what the critics say, because they truly believe in their vision.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’