George W. Bush Quotes

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job.

My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place.

I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way: but I am not fit to be President.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.

All I can tell Ashoke Pandit is that I don't go tom-tomming my work; all my social activities are for the betterment of my city and country.

I have been humbled by my first two weeks in office.

I think my dad's done a great job of letting others have their turn when his term was over and not being out there grandstanding and trying to say, 'Well, this is what I think, and I need to get the news and be on the news and' - he's not like that.

My father taught us to serve with strength and clear-minded conviction, but to do so with humility, to work in the Oval Office on behalf of the American people with a servant's heart.

Sushma Swaraj has no personal ambition. I take things in my stride.

I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.