George W. Bush Quotes

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

I can assure you President Trump and I are completely focused on the issues that matter most to the American people.

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

I came through and I shall return.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.