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Leadership Quotes
"In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe."
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"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."
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"The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that America would follow its first black president with Donald Trump accorded with its history. I was shocked at my own shock. I had wanted Obama to be right.I still want Obama to be right. I still would like to fold myself into the dream. This will not be possible."
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"I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules."
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"Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership."
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"Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need."
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"Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off."
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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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"Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do."
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"He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm."
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"We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources."
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"The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God."
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"Call your personal board now and discuss the important questions. You cannot invent, re-invent or show creative brilliance without asking pertinent questions. You must demand answers from your life, from your present circumstances or from any challenge you may face. Why can't you change? What does it take to get different results? What else can you do or try?"
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"A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style."
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"The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets."
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"Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you."
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"Often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss."
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"Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person."
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"Gone are the days when success depends on how you use your muscle tissues. In this 21st century, your brain cells must work more than your muscle tissues!"
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"As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her."
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"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
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"You are the center of your life."
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"Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations."
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"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
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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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"Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow."
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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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"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
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"Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don't create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them."
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"I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job.""
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"Great leaders never sought followers but follower seek them."
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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""
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"Let them obey that know not how to rule."
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"Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is "indiscipline"."
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"The enemy came to steel,destroy and kill our leader, our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that."
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"The strength of your growth depends on your leader. If the person you are taking counsel from is weaker than you, you are on your way down."
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"Whilst personal effectiveness focuses more on your personal development goals as you become the best practitioner in your area of specialty, leadership excellence shifts the focus to your leadership development in making a difference to the greater circle within your areas of influence and beyond. Leadership excellence focuses on areas of concern on behalf of others because a leader is expected to grow from personal effectiveness to begin making a significant impact on the world around them."
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"When you strive for excellence in leadership, then you will excel as a leader."
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"And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into despair by trying to hold this group of kids together in the face of one disaster after another. Both of them now happy to let Edilio handle it."No wonder, Edilio muttered."Stay inside unless absolutely necessary, Edilio shouted, and not for the first or last time wished he was still just Sam's faithful sidekick."
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"Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day."
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"When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love's fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love's values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love's endurance."
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"But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land.'(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)"
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"To lead people, you must follow behind."
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"Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail."
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"Benchmark against the top performing movers and shakers in your game. What are the skills required to achieve excellence in your area of specialty as a leader? How are you managing your vision and mission? Do you demonstrate a life lived with clear goals and targets? How are you providing direction, influence and developing others to lead? What is the evidence of the good leadership of your team?"
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"A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience."
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"If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle."
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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."
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"The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word."
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