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“If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.”

People Ifs Leader Teacher Strength Flower Built Guides Feds Having Strength

Book:Africa and America

Source: Africa and America

“Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.”

Women Leader Sorrow Guides Happy Best Leader Happy Day Superlatives

Author:Johann Gottfried Seume

“There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.”

People Leader Skills Guides Persuasion Presentation Good Leader Presentation Skills People Skills

Author:Shiv Khera

“The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.”

People Whole America Politics President Party Leader Conscience Guides Idealism

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929

“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

“I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.”

People Thinking Trying Long Matter Government Wanted Individual Left Interest Lines Common Leader Mark Instinct Guides Common Good Left Alone Personal Interest

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.”

Self Home Action Values Choices Situation Leader Integrity Guides Colleagues Unifying

Book:The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations

Source: The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations

“No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think anew rather than as a reason to stop thinking. Keep in mind, tradition should be a guide, not a jailer.”

Thinking Way Should Mind Reason Done Opportunity Growth Leader Achieve Tradition Organization Treats Guides Jailer

Author:Michael Josephson

“Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.”

People Way Trying Leader Guides Right Way

Author:Genndy Tartakovsky

“In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.”

People World Years Wealth Secret Leader Communication Degrees Increase Terrorism Guides Planes Links Jet World Leader Jet Planes

Author:Hugh Sidey

“The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.”

Left Behinds Leader Boys Teacher Students Guides Servant Left Behind Guru Passed Away

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda