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Leadership Quotes
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
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"In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader."
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"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."
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"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes."
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"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."
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"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
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"Where was Sam?It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was this how he'd been feeling since the beginning? All eyes on him? Everyone waiting for a decision? Even as people doubted and criticized and attacked?She wanted to be sick. She had been there for so much of it. But she hadn't been the one. She hadn't been the one making those choices.And now, she was."I don't know what to do, Astrid said. "I don't know."
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"Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are."
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"Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you."
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"He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right."
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"I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training."
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"When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."
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"Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader."
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"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."
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"The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue."
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"Realistic and unrealistic expectations will be placed on you, demands will be made, fair and unfair judgment will be passed. Your growing leadership intelligence should reflect in your objective response or reaction to these challenges " remember more eyes than you can see are watching you. Know when it is prudent to make a comment, to set the record straight or just not comment. Decide which invitations to accept and which ones to send a representative or to turn down. Continuously reflecting on your mission, beliefs and values will make this process more objective."
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"True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow."
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"Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity."
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"A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler."
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"Where my previous motivation had been a self-serving ambition, my new service mindset was dedicated to serving a vision greater than myself. Within a year, I quadrupled my income, and then I doubled it every year thereafter. This service mindset quickly taught me that by helping others achieve their goals, I could more easily achieve my own."
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"If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on."
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"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."
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"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
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"It's war that makes generals"
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."
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"Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader."
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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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"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward."
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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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"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine."
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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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"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 no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man."
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"If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do."
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"I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'"
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"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
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"Most people associate command and control leadership with the military."
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"I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses."
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"My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong."
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"Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry."
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"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
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"But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly."
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"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
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"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement."
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"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president."
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"It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home."
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"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."
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"The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on."
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