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Leadership Quotes
"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
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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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"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
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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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"I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet."
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"A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!"
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"A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
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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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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone."
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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 judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."
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"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."
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"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny."
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"In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British."
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"Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others."
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"Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
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"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."
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"Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens."
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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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"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."
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"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."
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"It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed."
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"A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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"More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it."
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"There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent."
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"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
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"Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms."
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"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
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"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity."
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"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."
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"Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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"Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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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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"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."
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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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"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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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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