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Leadership Quotes
"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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"Take to the path of dharma - the path of truth and justice. Don't misuse your valor. Remain united. March forward in all humility, but fully awake to the situation you face, demanding your rights and firmness."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."
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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
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"If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!"
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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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"It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins."
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"Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that."
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"Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,and give us a new power to overcome that sin."
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"You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!"
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!"
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"Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment."
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"Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching."
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"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."
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"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
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"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
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"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
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"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
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"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
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"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
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"A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
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"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
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"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
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"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
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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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"When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you."
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"If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations."
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"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"
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"Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief."
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"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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"Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in."
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"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
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"Leadership does not depend on being right."
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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
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