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Leadership Quotes
"Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take."
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"There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!"
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"Leadership. A gun to protect or a gun to kill. Your choice."
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"Your leadership skill-set might be what we have been waiting for, to bring order and finality to major challenges that affect the global village. The vast hydroelectric generation capacity in Africa, particularly the Great Lakes region and along the Nile River, still remains unutilized potential not benefiting the people of Africa most of whom continue to live in darkness and depleting the forests looking for wood fuel and more fertile farming land."
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"Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!"
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"The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!"
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"We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction."
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"People who always want to be at convenient places won't make a change at controversial places."
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"Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can't think better and plan better when you are under stress!"
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"People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters."
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"Not every leader is a philosopher, but each leader should cultivate a philosophical mindset."
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"Don't wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can't do it yourself. Just try it."
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"A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up."
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"Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter, others also matter! Live life so well!"
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"Leadership does never compete, but completes."
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"A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death."
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"Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up."
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"Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!"
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"Don't just be able, always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change."
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"Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men to smash down doors and drag people off the dungeons without trial, but too much of that sort of thing lacked style and anyway was bad for business, habit-forming and very, very dangerous for your health. A thinking tyrant, it seemed to Vetinari, had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least they could tell the people he was their fault."
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"No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!"
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"Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions."
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"You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself."
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"Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused."
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"Do unto others what you want them to do to you. Don't deceive if you don't want to be deceived. Don't cheat if you don't want to be cheated. Relationship is mutual. This is the golden rule for all great connections!"
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"What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track."
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"Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely."
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"Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again."
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"Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership."
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"The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing the vice. Going higher should be a priority; but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!"
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"Passionate people are always ready to stand for their dreams even if no one stand with them. They vote and vote alone for their dreams but never loss their nomination for excellent leadership!"
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"The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions."
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"The leader's joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life."
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"A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses."
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"One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example."
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"Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to know what is right. But they are also convinced to always do what's right."
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"True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!"
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"Leaders act with visions, they don't react with emotions. Maturity is when you don't allow your bad feelings to direct your good dealings."
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"Say "no" to corruption; it does not fit you! Say "no" to bad leadership; you don't fit there. Say "no" to immorality; it will only fake you! Be bold to say "no" if that is what will take your breakfast away; you will get a sweeter lunch pack for compensation sooner."
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"A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness."
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"Leaders are solutions conscious. They don't complain. You would find them repeating this common question; "how will it be done, and by who?"
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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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"Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way."
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"Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don't implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless."
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"Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!"
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"Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!"
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"If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this what I was sent to do? What do I have to have it do well?" This is potential."
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"We teach best by how we live life, who we are instructs with absolute clarity."
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"If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better for you to have a "single sentence" manifesto about your life which is fulfilled than to have 25 chapters' theories about your visions that remain undone!"
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