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Leadership Quotes
"As a leader, 1st, work on yourself- increase your self-awareness. There shouldn't be any other urgent agenda than this. Get enlightened! Know very well who you're including your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots!"
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"Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine."
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"I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive."
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"Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another."
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"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!"
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"Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic."
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"You need to think about all that, Sam, Dekka said. "You're the leader, after all."Not anymore, he said.Dekka laughed. She stood up and stretched. "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are."
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"When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!"
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"To lead is a privilege, not an entitlement. It doesn't make you better than anyone; it helps you bring out the best in everyone. Accolades don't inspire a leader's vision; they've set their sights on the success of others. Leaders bypass shortsightedness and focus on the big picture. Leaders who always stand righteously never stand alone."
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"As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong."
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"The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck."
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"Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce."
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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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"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership."
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"You can't lead people to where you've not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!"
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"In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved."
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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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"Be an example, be positive, be enthusiastic, be proactive--that is proactive leadership."
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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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"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 you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence."
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"There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party."
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"Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!"
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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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"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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"And don't forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you."
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"You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well."
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
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"Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others."
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"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
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"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
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"The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
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"The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone."
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"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions."
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
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"To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them."
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"Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart."
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"The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others."
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"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
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"Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs."
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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
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"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."
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"Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
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"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
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