“Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.”

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

So many people are on television that don’t know me, and they’re like experts on me.

That’s my attitude on the military. I don’t like telling the enemy what I’m doing.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

To be honest I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I’m with you!

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it – fight back!

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.