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Leadership Quotes
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
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"I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to."
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"Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter."
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"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."
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"Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong."
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"Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
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"Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will."
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"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
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"For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines."
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"Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power."
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"Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead."
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"Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment."
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"A good leader is known by 'his qualities' not 'his authorities'."
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"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts."
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"Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change."
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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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"The question 'Who ought to be boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?' Obviously the man who can sing tenor."
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"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
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"We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
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"I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
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"Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods."
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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"The only way I can lead the Congress is by not being afraid."
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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."
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"Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience."
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"The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career."
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"Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply.Or snapped entirely."
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"Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky."
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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 is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
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"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
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"There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness."
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"Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case."
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"One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position."
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"In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes."
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"In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity."
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"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance."
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"As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously."
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"Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public."
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"I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now."
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"The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader."
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"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."
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