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Leadership Quotes
"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."
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"The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas."
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"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
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"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world."
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"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families."
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"Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce."
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"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."
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"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
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"Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue."
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"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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"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
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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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"Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation."
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"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
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"Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!"
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"The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble."
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"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
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"I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it."
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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 observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
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"Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution."
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"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."
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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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"There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other."
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"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
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"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
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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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"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
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"People will follow you when you build the character to follow through."
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"True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart."
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"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
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"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
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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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"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
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"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms."
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"As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge."
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"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
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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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"I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial."
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