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#1

“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: leadership

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#2

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

tags: leadership

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#3

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: frugality, humility, leadership

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#4

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: leadership

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#5

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

[News conference, April 21 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: defeat, leadership, responsibility, victory

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#6

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

tags: followship, leadership

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#7

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: leadership, learning

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#8

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

tags: leadership, military

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#9

“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

tags: leadership, perseverance

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#10

“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”
― John Holt , Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling

tags: education, homeschooling, leadership, unschooling

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#11

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: example, leadership, morality, right, righteousness

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#12

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
― Robert E. Lee

tags: inspirational, leadership, self-control

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#13

“Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

tags: inspirational, lds, leadership

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#14

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: leadership

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#15

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches

tags: democracy, inspirational, leadership, reality

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#16

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#17

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: leadership

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#18

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: leadership, management

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#19

“Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: leadership, self, teenagers, youth

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#20

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― John Quincy Adams

tags: inspirational, leadership

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#21

“If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;
and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached
to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu.

tags: charisma, discipline, leadership, relationship

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#22

“And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

tags: leadership, queen, spain, spanish-armada

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#23

“One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.”
― Roy T. Bennett

tags: challenge, encouragement, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking

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#24

“With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: dare, daring, death, encouragement, entrepreneurship, extreme, extreme-sports, failure, fearless, inspirational, judgment, leadership, legacies, life, motivational, purpose, risk, risk-it, risk-it-be-different, risky, sports, suffering, take-the-lead, take-the-risk

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#25

“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

tags: leadership

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#26

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: leadership

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#27

“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: critical-thinking, depression, despair, leadership, strategy

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#28

“Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.”
― Orrin Woodward

tags: character, integrity, leadership

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#29

“the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: leadership, politics, saints

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#30

“A star wants to see himself rise to the top.

A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.”
― Simon Sinek

tags: leadership

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