Leadership Quotes
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Honesty is the axis on which leadership spins.
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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.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
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I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
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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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Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
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History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
