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Leadership Quotes
"Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do."
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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
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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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"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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"I don't see any dearth of women leaders, it's a question of what we consider a woman leader."
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"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."
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"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
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"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."
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"Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter."
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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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"I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes."
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"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."
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"Ask yourself - Can you manage projects and meetings effectively? Do you have requisite knowledge of the business financial numbers? Can you manage conflict and change within dynamic environments? Do you have what it takes to respond to the demands of a global village? How deep is your leadership substance?"
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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."
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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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"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
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"Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER."
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"By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it."
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"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
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"I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State."
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"Realistic and unrealistic expectations will be placed on you, demands will be made, fair and unfair judgment will be passed. Your growing leadership intelligence should reflect in your objective response or reaction to these challenges " remember more eyes than you can see are watching you. Know when it is prudent to make a comment, to set the record straight or just not comment. Decide which invitations to accept and which ones to send a representative or to turn down. Continuously reflecting on your mission, beliefs and values will make this process more objective."
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"It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known."
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"To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart."
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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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"Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better."
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"Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership."
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"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want."
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"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."
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"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
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"There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run."
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"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
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"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."
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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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"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat."
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."
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"Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader."
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"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."
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"One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position."
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"To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous."
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"In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes."
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"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."
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"You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?"
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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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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."
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