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Leadership Quotes
"In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won."
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"Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."
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"Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people..."
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"To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant."
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"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen."
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"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
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"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
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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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"Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born."
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"O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart."
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"People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction."
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"A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader - is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader."
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"We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset.Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation."
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"I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no."
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"If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn't the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations."
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"There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead."
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"Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously."
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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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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
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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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"Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me."
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"The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others."
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"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."
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"When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset."
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"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
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"A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return."
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"A good leader lays seeds to grow trees of peace. A bad leader lays down bricks to build walls of ignorance. Always choose the peacemaker, not the divider. The one who unites and strengthens a country, not divides and cripples it. A leader that will build bridges, not walls."
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"First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?"
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"Encouraging others can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness."
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"People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous."
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"Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work."
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"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."
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"A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame."
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"Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong."
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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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"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
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"Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others."
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"Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular."
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"Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility."
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"One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say."
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"Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand."
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"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
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"Fear produces action, but would never create followers."
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"If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you."
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
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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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