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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"God Himself is the power that makes prayer work."
"Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!"
"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"
"I heard my teacher said "great people make history". I am not concern about "great" or "people" or "history". I am concerned about "make" and it keeps me asking the next question "how?"! They are Determined and Disciplined!"
"Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere."
"If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?"
"But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever. And we are asking them to do a quite different job, for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us- on the laymen."
"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"
"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."
"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"
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"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
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