Leadership Quotes
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The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.
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Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
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Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
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We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.
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To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you’re a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you’ve already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I’ve ever taught you, remember this: my love is everlasting.
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Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
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In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.
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I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
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The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
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We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.
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If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.
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Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.
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With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
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We cannot all be masters.
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
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If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.
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I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.
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Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
