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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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A community is like the ones who govern it.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
-Karl von Clausewitz
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When people go to work, they don
-Lee J. Colan
Passionate Performance
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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
-Confucius
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
-James Crook
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
-Salvador Dali
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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.
-Max De Pree
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In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
-Max De Pree
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
-Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art"
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Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.
-Canon Lindsay Dewar
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
-Denis Diderot
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
-Diogenes
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
-R. S. Donnell
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-Peter Drucker
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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
-Peter Drucker
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
-Peter Drucker
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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.
-Wayne Dyer
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
-Albert Einstein
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Books about Leadership
