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Leadership Quotes
"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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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us."
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"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."
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"Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected."
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"Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
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"If your vision is great, you become great."
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"Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you."
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"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
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"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
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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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"Change plus innovation equals progress!"
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"One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century."
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"Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it."
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"Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart."
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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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"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
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"This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery."
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"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
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"Use political positions as a platform to introduce legislation based on kingdom principle."
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"In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision."
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"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
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"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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"Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers."
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"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."
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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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"House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?"
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"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
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"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."
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"Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising."
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"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
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"I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to."
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"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
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"To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them."
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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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"The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live."
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"I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to."
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"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
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"The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
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"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
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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'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much."
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"Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry."
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"I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister."
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