"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."

Leadership, President, Sea

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"Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will."

Scott Brown, American Politician

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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"Those who own much have much to fear."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Leadership, Fear

"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

Leadership, Strategy, Responsibility, Guidance

"In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Leadership, Responsibility, Opportunity, Service

"Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Leadership, Time, Efficiency, Success

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Leadership, Trust, Respect, Confidence

"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."

Marguerite Young, American Author

Leadership, Leader, Illusion

"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Leadership, Democracy, Equality, Power

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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

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"Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."

"Those who own much have much to fear."

"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."

"In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society."

"Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them."

"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."

"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

"Friends are born, not made."