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Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
- Theodore Hesburgh
The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Good business leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision, passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
When the best leader's work is done, the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight Eisenhower
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -
but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction,
or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
-
Adolf Hitler
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher
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