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Leadership Quotes
"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."
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"Lead with your heart. The rest will follow."
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
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"It's unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!"
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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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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
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"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
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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 think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."
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"Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project."
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"The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction."
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"...you cannot be a leader if no one is willing to follow and work alongside you. An arrogant person does not ask for help and is therefore helpless. An arrogant person claims to know everything and thus is clueless. A humble person attracts helpers and teachers."
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"I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient."
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"I know nothing about technology."
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"They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher."
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"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward."
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"In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity."
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"The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire."
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"I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team."
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"As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president."
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"We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader."
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"I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness."
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"Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership."
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"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"
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"To be a statesman, you must first get elected."
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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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"The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing."
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
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"The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years."
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"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old."
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"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
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"At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States."
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"The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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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 very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
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"We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means."
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"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise."
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"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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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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"Plant a good seed in people who have fertile hearts. When you are away, they'll miss you. When you are coming again, they can't wait!"
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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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"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."
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"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
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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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"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
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"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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