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Leadership Quotes
"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
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"Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,and give us a new power to overcome that sin."
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"I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me."
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"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
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"If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!"
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"Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted."
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"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots."
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"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
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"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them."
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"You don't miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face."
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"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."
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"It takes very little to govern good people."
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"Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
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"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since."
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"We've been working our tail off and lead by that example."
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"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together."
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"To lead the people walk behind them."
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
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"A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
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"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
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"Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward."
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"And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."
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"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
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"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."
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"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."
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"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."
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"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."
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"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
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"Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist."
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"A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!"
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"A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, "We did this ourselves."
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"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require."
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"Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
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