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“The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.”

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Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.”

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Author:Mary Parker Follett

“the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.”

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Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.”

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Book:Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Source: Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

“The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.”

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Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.”

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Author:Jim Prentice

“God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.”

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Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”

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Book:20th Century American History Book 3 - AUDIO EDITION OF THE UNITED STATES STUDIES FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS, CHILDREN(KIDS) AND YOUNG ADULTS: Including Subjects on The Korean War, The Cold War, The Vietnam War, The Civil Rights Movement, Watergate & more

Source: 20th Century American History Book 3 - AUDIO EDITION OF THE UNITED STATES STUDIES FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS, CHILDREN(KIDS) AND YOUNG ADULTS: Including Subjects on The Korean War, The Cold War, The Vietnam War, The Civil Rights Movement, Watergate & more

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”

“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

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Book:Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

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Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Purpose is what gives life meaning.”

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Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.”