George Osborne Quotes

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

You do not need to be in a position of power. You need only be in a position to influence those in power.

Now the power is in your hands!

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

Does our hand show in this?

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

Take destiny in your own hands.

We're too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don't have to let things happen to you. You can affect change.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

Were born to be players, not pawns.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.