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Leadership Quotes
"Leadership is not a position; it is an action that inspires and influences positive change."
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"The cost of leadership is self-interest."
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"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
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"I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader."
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"A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens."
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"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."
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"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there."
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"If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues."
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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer."
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"We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned."
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"When leaders lack self-awareness, they doubt themselves; uncertain about their abilities; unclear about the direction to take on each turn, and more..."
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"This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership."
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"The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course."
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"Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team."
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"Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die."
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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
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"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
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"Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit."
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"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
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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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"The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action."
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"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."
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"I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians."
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"The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?"
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"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."
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"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power."
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"Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders"."
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"Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective."
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"Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team."
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"Director of Ensuring the Future."
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"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."
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"This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception."
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"At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not."
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"The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan."
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"You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead."
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"Leaders draw out ones individual greatness."
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"North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending."
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"We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic."
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"Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!"
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"Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership."
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"An older dom snorted. "Atherton uses the word escort loosely. The last time someone messed with a trainee, he threw the guy across the bar. Strolled over, waited for the idiot to stand up, punched his lights out, and dragged him by his jacket collar out of the place. Escorted him, my ass. Didn't even wrinkle that fancy suit. He took a sip of his beer and added, "Atherton is invariably polite, but nobody in their right mind fucks with his trainees."
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"Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs."
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"It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else."
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"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."
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"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."
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"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."
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"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
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"If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs."
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