Leadership Quotes - Page 37

• This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Uplifting, Ghetto, Fundamentals

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

  Marguerite Young

  Insane, Hallucinations, Illusion

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

  Robert Harris

  Choices, Decision, Blind

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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• If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Christian, Book, Character

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.104, Moody Publishers

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• Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

  Hilary Duff

  Softball, Sports, I Hate You

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Teacher

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Uplifting

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Law, Sky, Tree

  The Second Jungle Book "The Law of the Jungle" st. 1 (1895)

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Risk

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• Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

  Rumi

  Courage, Tired, Heart

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• Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Two, Interesting, Decision

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.148, Macmillan

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• It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Skills, Followers, Personal Growth

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

  Barack Obama

  Destiny, Hands, Unity

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Smart, Long, Office

  George W. Bush's remarks in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008.

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• Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Inspirational, People, Perspective

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Knowledge, Rocks, Mind

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• NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Nihilist, Deny

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Mean, Angel

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.194, Penguin

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• Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

  Ralph Moody

  Motivational, Inspiring, Horse

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press

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