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About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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