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Leadership Quotes
"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
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"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
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"If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price."
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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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"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"
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"Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader."
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"A king who trusts no man is weak."
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"There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power."
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"Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup and our destiny."
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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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"It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader."
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"Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me."
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"In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader."
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"The church should become a place of regeneration and reformation."
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"The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours of their discouragements. God whispers; "I am with you"!"
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"But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others."
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"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
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"The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination."
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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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"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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"It's awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!"
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"Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption, they are for other people's liberation."
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"Change comes with pain... But this pain later becomes a gain. To explain it well, "no pain, no gain"! Endure the pain and make a difference!"
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"I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them."
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"Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling."
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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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"Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words."
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly."
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"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
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"Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!"
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"A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!"
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"You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle, the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!"
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"Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!"
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
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"Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country."
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"I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to."
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"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
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"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them."
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"My personal convictions drive me to join those like-minded, in the recruitment of a growing army without guns, no hatred or prejudice, but with a leadership voice of influence and harnessing resources to create the change they desire. The major problems facing the world, particularly our beloved African continent, will not be won by sanctions, cruelty, ethnic cleansing, revenge, guns or bullets. The challenges are not largely externally motivated, so the platform to change them must shift. Shift from selfish to selfless, from external to internal, from behaviours to beliefs. Some of them are externally sponsored but self-inflicted, whilst most of them are due to greed, short-sightedness, abuse and selfishness."
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"Be the chief but never the lord."
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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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"You don't lead people by what you say to them, you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders."
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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