Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chiang Kai-shek

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• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• Leadership means setting a moral tone.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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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.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
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• I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Control
  • Path
  • Leadership

• Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Woman
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• If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Education
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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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  • Business
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• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • High
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• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
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• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
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• Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Health
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• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Culture
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• Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Running

• I spend as much time as I possibly can doing things for other people, if I can. If I see a need and I feel that I can help, I do it. I work a great deal in terms of charities and things.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pain
  • Memory
  • Darkness

• No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Grow
  • Branches
  • Antagonism

• China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Leadership