Leadership Quotes - Page 36

• Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Vision, Process

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• How you spend your time defines who you are.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Who You Are

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Education, Witty

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• Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Men, Doe

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• What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

  Jacob August Riis

  Motivational, Inspiring, Stay Strong

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• Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

  Mitt Romney

  Christian, America, Vision

  "Cnn Saturday Morning News" with Randi Kaye, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, Perspective, Benefits

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• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

  Paul Ryan

  Moving, College, Years

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

  Paul Ryan

  Offering, People, Understanding

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

  Paul Ryan

  Political, Today, Chiefs

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, Europe, People

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• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Lying, Memorable

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 30

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• I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

  Tupac Shakur

  Motivational, Inspiring, Responsibility

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Courage, Ambition, Trying

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Iran, Korea, Giving

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• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Men, Mind

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, God

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• Life is not a dress rehearsal.

  Rose Tremain

  Inspirational, Life, Dresses

  "Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

  Daniel Webster

  Patriotic, July, Patriotism

  Speech in Senate on Compromise Bill, 17 July 1850

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• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  George Will

  Pain, Long, Gains

  George F. Will (1983). “Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does”

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• Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

  John Wilmot

  Funny, Children, Parenting

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