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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.
-Richard Saunders
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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
-James Schorr
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When placed in command -- take charge.
-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
-Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
-John Selden
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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!
-H. Gordon Selfridge
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.
-Harold J. Seymore
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Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
-Harold J. Seymore
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
-Gail Sheehy
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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
-Don Shula
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
-B. F. Skinner
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
-Socrates
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-Sophocles
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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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'All Mr. Pitt's sentiments were liberal and elevated. His ruling passion was an unbounded ambition, which, when supported by great abilities and crowned with great success, make (sic) what the world calls a great man. He was haughty, imperious, impatient of contradiction, and over-bearing; qualities which too often accompany, but always clog, great ones
-Philip Dormer Stanhope
Character of Mr. Pitt; Chesterfield's Works. Appendix to vol. iv. p. 64.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
-Henri B. Stendhal
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
-Publilius Syrus
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
-Tacitus
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
-Tacitus
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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
-Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.
-Claude Taylor
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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.
-Orway Tead
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Books about Leadership
