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Leadership Quotes
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
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"Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly."
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"Now, who else speaks for Perdido Beach?Bouncing Bette said, "Sam Temple here went into a burning building to rescue a little girl. He can speak for me, anyway.There was a murmur of agreement."Yeah, Sam is a hero for real, a voice said."He could have died, another voice seconded."Yeah, Sam's the guy.Caine's smile came and disappeared so quickly, Sam wasn't sure it had happened. For that millisecond it was a look of triumph. Caine walked straight up to Sam, open and forthright, hand extended."There are probably better people than me, Sam said, backing away."
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"Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!"
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"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
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"You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant."
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"A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential."
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"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
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"Authentic Leaders are not afraid to show emotion and vulnerability as they share in the challenges with their team. Developing a solid foundation of trust with open and honest communication is critical to authentic leadership."
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"It is not important who the leader is. Its important where they lead you to."
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"In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own, and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves."
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"Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It's why the whole world is falling apart."
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"When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them."
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"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."
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"The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit."
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"God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them."
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"God wants us to know His will and He reveals it to us both through the Bible and through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. Seek God's will when you pray, and He will help you know it."
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"Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today's nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve."
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"A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart."
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"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
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"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
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"If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don't ignore problems. Don't assume it will get better."
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"Tens of thousands of God's saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God."
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"The only one is a hero - who builds bridges between cultures, and does not destroy them."
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"At a leadership level, there is need to become aware of the realities required to lead and deliver value to people and groups, some who might have values and beliefs that significantly differ from your own. The ability to objectively strike this balance will indicate your level of leadership maturity."
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"But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.That was the military."
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"Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control."
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"Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision."
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"True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness."
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"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy."
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"Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given."
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"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
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"A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones."
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"Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos."
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"You don't lead people by what you say to them, you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders."
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"The worst of sages is a visitor of princes, the best of princes is a visitor of sages."
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"Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide."
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"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
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"Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.''As you get older, you also get tired?''Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired."
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."
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"Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again."
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"Consistency in leadership means everyone knows what to expect from you or in dealing with you. It is the quality that draws respect and value towards a leadership brand. This also means you have the discipline to stick to your principles and values regardless of challenges or consequences, and you prove this over a long period of time."
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"Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't."
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"Yesterday I was qualified, the Lord knows how, as your depute."
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"Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power."
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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
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