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Leadership Quotes
!["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."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"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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"Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new."
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"A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten."
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"True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance."
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"If in this generation, you still consider yourself the only one who knows or who has the capacity to make a difference, it's a shame because you are delaying this leadership excellence train from reaching its destination. Make a decision to change your leadership philosophy and agenda today!"
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"I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger."
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"People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire."
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"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action."
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"Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert."
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"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game."
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"As you strive for personal effectiveness and leadership excellence, there are local and global questions that you will inevitably have to face. These range from poverty, corruption, terrorism, food security, scarcity of resources and overpopulation among others. Your power and influence for significance in leadership excellence will increase in direct proportion to your ability to find effective and sustainable practical solutions to some of these real-life challenges."
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"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later."
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"Now that you are a leader. Everyone will want to know what you are doing and feel at liberty to comment or scrutinize even your private life. The world will become interested in your family life, your health, your achievements but most interestingly your shortcomings."
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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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"Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward."
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"Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you."
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"In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments. Corporations had CEOs. Schools had principals. Armies had generals. Human beings tended to believe that without central command, chaos would overwhelm the organization and nothing significant could be accomplished."
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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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"Embrace the right values that may enable you achieve self-leadership & self-discipline, and show commitment to these values unconditionally."
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"Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life."
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"Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future."
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"LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age."
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"If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate."
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"As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong."
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"Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."
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"We should go to no place that we would not go in His Presence. But He is not with us just to judge or condemn us; He is near to comfort, protect, guide, encourage, strengthen, cleanse, and help."
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"The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal."
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"Begin to invest in productive capacity, and the ability to see people flying or shining on the platform you have set for them in support of your vision. You need to draw the best out of them so that the reach and impact of your vision becomes phenomenal. See them as your extension, the multiplication of the tentacles of your vision and mission " sometimes when they shine, they are not trying to replace you at all, they are trying to be a "little you somewhere you cannot be, as you focus on other key strategic issues elsewhere."
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"When you have defined your mission, values and attitudes in the context of leadership influence and excellence, you also need to conduct a personal audit, checking how aligned they are to your current leadership practices. Where necessary, begin to make adjustments."
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"The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm."
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"It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others."
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"The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks."
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"Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy."
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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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"The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around."
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"Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief."
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"Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven."
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"Leaders with high esteem are high performers."
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"To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers."
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"God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching."
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"Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you'll not drift off!"
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"By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it."
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"The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her."
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"You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well."
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"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
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"A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency."
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"Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others."
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"Leaders can set targets as high as they like, but when followers are not aware of the vision in place; it may just be another futile endeavor."
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