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Leadership Quotes
"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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"In America, public opinion is the leader."
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"Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind."
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"It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders."
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"He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities."
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"The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership."
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"The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions."
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"Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them."
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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
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"A great teacher is the architect of a great future."
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"At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart."
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
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"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions."
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"I'm a machine man, and I head a machine."
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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
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"We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything."
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"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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"It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today."
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"Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another."
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"Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need."
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"This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the difference?"
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"Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant."
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"Visualize yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself into an excellent person, with constant practice and perseverance. Enjoy and relish the process."
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"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
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"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."
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"One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power-to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom-all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown."
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"Ready to hit the sack?'She choked on the last slide of her ice cream and cleared her throat, 'With you?'... 'You offering?'No! I'm not offering.' She pushed to her feet and then with a softer tone added, 'Are you asking?"
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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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"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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"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!"
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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
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"For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people."
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"Real leaders are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
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"When we think we lead we most are led."
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"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
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"You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!"
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"Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark."
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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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"The call to leadership excellence means you must now be awake to the reality that you are no longer your own, you are a blessing to society. In business, this will also mean value given to shareholders, customers, employees as well as society. This will take you, your family and your corporate base to appreciate that your leadership role and influence demands that they share you with other causes and stakeholders. As an effective person, you must be able to balance the demands on you and create the additional time that leadership at a higher level requires."
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"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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"Character is the bedrock of leadership; let integrity and honesty be your guiding principles."
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"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."
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"There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!"
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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
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"It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway."
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"Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better."
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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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