Leadership Quotes
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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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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
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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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There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.
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If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.
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We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.
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We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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The world need strong leadership for women's rights.
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If the Chinese decide to take leadership in this area and decide to challenge us both commercially as well as perhaps strategically, then the United States has to make a very, very clear decision about whether or not we are going to advance our space technology or whether or not we are going to rest on our laurels of the past.
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Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.
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Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
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First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
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Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
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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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Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
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The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
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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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One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.
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The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
