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Leadership Quotes
"President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions."
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"The United States is the leader of the free world."
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"Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system."
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"My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong."
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"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents."
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"San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind."
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"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
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"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."
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"Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work."
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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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"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
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"The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO."
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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."
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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
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"Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead."
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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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"This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president."
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"The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant."
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"Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
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"One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good."
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"Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world."
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"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees."
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"On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places."
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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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"The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!"
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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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"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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"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."
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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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"When you lead the wise, walk behind them. When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them. When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them."
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"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
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"The cost of leadership is self-interest."
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"Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince."
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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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"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
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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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"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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"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
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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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"Leaders are made to be rivers not reservoirs."
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"A good leader is known by 'his qualities' not 'his authorities'."
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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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"Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change."
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"A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
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"And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced."
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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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