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“Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.”

Individual Belief Nations Leader Ideals Mere Permanent Cherish Custodians

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.”

Long Jobs Term Leader Focused Long Term Great Leader

Author:Reed Hastings

“Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.”

Persons Lasts Leader Advice

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.”

People May Action Leadership Leader Commit Agents Followers

Book:Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

“No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.”

People May Matter Strong Nations Leader Risk Roots Guides Tone Dedicated

Book:A Dialogue with My People: Selected Speeches of Ferdinand E. Marcos, September 1972-September 1973

Source: A Dialogue with My People: Selected Speeches of Ferdinand E. Marcos, September 1972-September 1973

“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Political Secret Leader Media Direct Exception Documents Lacking Occasional Constituents Political Leaders Kept Secrets

Author:Moses Finley

“If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".”

Ifs Would Be Political Leader Conditions Tension Political Leaders Athens

Author:Moses Finley

“I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Feels I Can Important Would Be Leader Inspire Involved One Way Get Involved

Author:Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

“Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in compassion and love on the world. Until you sense the suffering tears in the heart of God, until you share to some extent our Saviors suffering passion in Gethsemane, until you come close enough to God to enable the Spirit to yearn within you with His infinite and unutterable yearnings, you are not prepared to minister about the cross.”

World Looks Heart Enough Spirit Suffering Passion Compassion Leader Share Tears Degrees Crosses And Love Infinite Moved Prepared Ministers Our World Savior Yearning Within You Gethsemane

Book:Ablaze for God

Source: Ablaze for God

“Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.”

Men Mind Turns Process Christ Leader Masters Bears Every Man Conversion Revolutionary Enlisting

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”

Powerful Leader Optimism Tanks Contagious Batteries Being A Leader Artillery

Author:Rick Hillier

“Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.”

Thinking Needs Long Able Spiritual Perfect Healing Leader Poverty Teacher Angel Heal Wounded Healer Spiritual Leader Perfect Teacher

Author:Angelina Love

“The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.”

Long Leadership Silence Quality Leader Teach Speech Long Speeches

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.”

Speak Natural Leadership Leader Wise Goes On Rain Thunder Wise Leaders

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.”

Thinking Men War Ends Facts Existence Leader Enemy He Man Essentials Army Slavery Unions Careful Civil War Rebellion Be Careful Trusted Hostile Traitor

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.”

Real Political Politics Party Leader Opinion Issues Depth Political Parties Public Opinion Real Ones Political Issues

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.”

People Leadership Leader Development Needed Developing Being A Leader

Author:Ella Baker

“Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.”

“An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.”

Way Suffering Leader Institutions

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.”

Leader Information Best Leader

Author:Ed Bearss

“[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.”

Felt Attitude Leader Movement Rose Characteristics Dislike Defining Bakers Older Women Top Down

Author:Gail Collins

“I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.”

Thinking Needs Ideas Causes Leader Concepts Embrace Appropriate Followers

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.”

Said Care Wanted Effort Leader Deserve Don't Care I Don't Care Uniforms Captains Lacking Disgrace Not Happy Moss Randy Oakland Raiders Oakland Raiders

Author:Boomer Esiason

“The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.”

Moments Leader Steps Core Diminish Effectiveness Competencies

Book:Next Generation Leader

Source: Next Generation Leader

“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.”

People Needs Stills Results Leader Millions Saws Century Movement Horror Organization Bases Likes 20th Century Distrust Doom Mislead Charisma Charismatic Mao Quacks

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.”

Ifs Faces Talking Leader Fate Criticism Errors Graves Discussion Misunderstanding Misunderstood Learners Being Misunderstood

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'”

Years Has Beens Two Three House Stars Leader Performances Majority Prison Dancing Former Three Years Toms Delay Dancing With The Stars Money Laundering Majority Leader

Author:Jay Leno

“Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right”

Care Leader Good Leader

Author:Simon Sinek

“A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.”

Ability Leader Titles

Author:Simon Sinek

“Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Together Given Nations Leader Millions Television First Time Discovering Pakistan Forums

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.”

Done Able Natural Leader Authority Rely Formal Things Done Whips

Author:Gary Hamel

“Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.”

May Has Beens Whole Today Past Games Challenges Leader Creating Employee Engagement Indifferent Engaging Optional Creating The Future

Book:What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.”

Thinking Knows Matter Body Eye Night Certain Nations Grows President Sleep Existence Leader Wonder Millions Hair Offers Office Wake Up Deeper Every Night Toes Daze

Author:George Washington

“A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”

Giving Strong Leader Accepting Weak Blame Credit Strong Leaders Weak Leaders

Book:Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

“We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.”

People Ifs World Done Numbers Company Leader Influence Example Products Vote Responsible Refuse Enormous Global Warming Voters Plastic Wraps Wrapping

Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

“True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.”

Giving Grows Leadership Leader Power Willing Fixed Unlimited Abstraction True Leader

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.”

Mind Facts Enjoy Leadership Leader Power Comfortable Research Currents Appropriate True Leader

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.”

Doe Ideas Seems Leadership Brain Leader Fashion Comfort Chaos Tolerance Recognizing Ambiguity Stimulus Linear Exploding

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.”

Believe Long Dream Leadership Powerful Leader Fantasy Possibility Commit Realms Followers Pipe Pragmatists Realm Of Possibility Pipe Dreams

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.”

Energy Leadership Leader Vision Shapes Direct

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.”

Leadership Leader Our Love One Sided

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”

“The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.”

“We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.”

Life Needs Leader Defense

Author:Ted Cruz

“There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.”

Play Able Law Politics Nations Leader Position Offers Assuming Lifetime Chiefs Officers Law Enforcement Enforcement Nominations

Author:Hillary Clinton

“All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.”

Children Turns Leader Strive Followers

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!”

Life Country Leader Sun Brighter Sun Set

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Dream Government Leader Steps Plans Offers Harder Recovery American Dream Earning Step Up Paychecks Mirages

Author:Jeb Bush

“A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.”

Leader Beaten

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.”

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