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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
What you can't enforce, do not command.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them
Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.
[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!
True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.
Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.
If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?
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.
The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.
... 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.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
The sharp employ the sharp.
