Leadership Quotes
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
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There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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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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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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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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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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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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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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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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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
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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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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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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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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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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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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.