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Leadership Quotes
"How to change the world: spread positivity; bring people up instead of dragging them down; treat others the way you wish to be treated."
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"Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep."
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"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
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"Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish."
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"The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow."
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"If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue."
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"Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride."
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"Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you."
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"Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do."
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"You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more."
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"Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great."
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"I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes."
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"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."
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"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
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"Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project."
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"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
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"Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle."
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"You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?"
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
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"The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them."
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"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."
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"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
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"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."
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"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems."
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"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
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"I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game."
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"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State."
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"A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!"
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"As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower."
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"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
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"What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
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"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."
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"Lead with your heart. The rest will follow."
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"Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison."
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"Fit to govern? No, not fit to live."
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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
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"Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!"
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."
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"There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run."
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"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."
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"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
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