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Leadership Quotes
"If you don't create a good message about your dreams, those who were created to pay for it can't find it. Speak them out and you will find those God created to finance it."
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"Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change."
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"Leadership comes at a cost.It's called servant leadership."
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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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"I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me."
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"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading."
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"Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart."
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"Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust."
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"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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"To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny."
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"It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow."
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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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"Speaking doesn t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak."
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"Great countries are those that produce great people."
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"A leader must stand up for his team even when he has to stand alone."
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"Release children as part of your delegated leadership influence - this will enable you to leave a legacy worth noting. Realise the risk in delegation and bestowing this trust - if you sacrifice a rib, you expose your heart to possible pain, hurt or pride, fulfilment and joy. When these come " it's not the end of the world, be brave enough to face the challenge with a positive attitude."
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"As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower."
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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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"Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team."
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"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."
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"You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more."
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"It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course."
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"I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy."
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"World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century."
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"Simplicity is the language of leadership."
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"There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender."
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"If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term."
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"The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don't sit! Many people may be standing; but don't just stand. When you stand, be outstanding!"
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"It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian."
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"You have many gifts, some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to take the lead!"
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"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world."
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"And don't forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you."
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"The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up."
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"To become a leader through one's merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities]."
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"Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison."
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"Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up."
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"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
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"Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless."
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"They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
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"You have to make the right choice in order to have the right to change the world... Take hold of this chance right away!"
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
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"If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name."
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"When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility."
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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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"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
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"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."
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