"The topic of leadership is a touchy..." - Quote by Kobe Bryant

“It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.”

“It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.”

“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”

“A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.”

“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.”

“When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.”

“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”

“Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.”

“Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”