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Leadership Quotes
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
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"Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role."
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."
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"With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!"
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"There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand."
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"Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person."
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"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."
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"If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality."
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"Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves."
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"Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying."
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"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."
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"Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And that is why many companies are willing to pay them in millions."
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"Nowhere does the Bible teach that Christians are to be exempt from the tribulations and natural disasters that come upon the world. It does teach that the Christian can face tribulation, crisis, calamity, and personal suffering with a supernatural power that is not available to the person outside of Christ."
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"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
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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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"Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course."
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"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."
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"We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius."
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"In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God's guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved."
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"He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up."
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"Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures."
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"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
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"As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'"
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"The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ."
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"To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life."
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"Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems."
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"Everyone has the spark of greatness, a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
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"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."
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"It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process."
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"In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent."
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"Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine."
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"The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves."
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"The brain is the coast of many great monuments. Your ability to exploit the power of your brain is what makes you a leader. Leadership emerges from a positive mindset!"
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"A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process."
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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you're working with, and how you're helping them."
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"I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer."
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"It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed."
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"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."
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"Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation."
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"Do not hire those who are incapable. Do not fire those who are capable. A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one."
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"It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind."
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"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success-or the most to lose from failure."
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"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."
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"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
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"Just as you won't enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won't even wait to learn from people you hate."
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"We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!"
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"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."
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"If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of."
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