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• Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Energy, Firsts

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• True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Giving, Missionary, Service To Others

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Business, People, Political

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• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hope, Giving, Matter

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  Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

  Tom Ridge

  Inspiring, Team, Independent

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• Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Successful, Identity

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

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• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Responsibility, Work Out, Historical

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• If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Firsts, Authority, Restaurants

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Average, Needs, Genius

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

  Diane Nash

  Motivational, Freedom, Believe In Yourself

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• Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Ideas, Important, Concepts

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Time, Business

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• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Believe, People

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• He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

  Sam Manekshaw

  Dance, Drinking, Army

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• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Motivation, Real, Organization

  "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself". Book by Steve Chandler, 2004.

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• 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.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Inspirational, Money, Business

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• The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

  Albert Einstein

  Born Leaders, Able, Leading On

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.

  John Haggai

  Optimistic, Intuition, Vision

  John Edmund Haggai (1986). “Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world”, W Publishing Group

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• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

  Will Rogers

  Summer, Risk, Fruit

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• Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Decision

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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