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Leadership Quotes
"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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"Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military."
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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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"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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"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
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"While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago."
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"More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it."
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"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
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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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"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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"Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust."
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"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
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"You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity."
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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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"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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"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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"A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
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"If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us."
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"Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better."
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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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"I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader."
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"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
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"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
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"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
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"Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing."
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"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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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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"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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"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."
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"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."
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"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
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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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"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister."
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"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
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"Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power."
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"It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs."
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"Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction, you dreams will be alive and grow into success!"
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"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
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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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"You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable."
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"Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue, you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!"
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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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"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
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"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
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"Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five. It is "a second by second, minute by minute service that we owe to everyone if we want to call ourselves a leader"."
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