Leadership Quotes
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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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I realize that every time we discuss a job placement and look at a list of both male and female candidates, there's a question that comes up pretty much all the time for the woman: 'Will she know how to assert herself?' It's not meant to be malicious. It's more, 'Will she manage to take leadership of the team you want to entrust to her?'
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Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.
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That’s leadership: lead by example, lead from the front, inspire people to follow your lead.
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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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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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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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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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If people don’t trust you, they will not follow your leadership.
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Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
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People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
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Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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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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The world need strong leadership for women's rights.
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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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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.
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For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
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Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
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As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.
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The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
