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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Indira Gandhi
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. -Tom Peters
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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader.It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!You can't hold a man down withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington.

Booker T. Washington
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One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasgow
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. -Nelson Mandela
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell
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I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Harry S Truman
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -Lou Holtz
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I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler
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If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk. -Afghan Proverb
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Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

J. Michael Straczynski
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Andre Malraux
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The crowd gives the leader new strength. -Evenius
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee
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Leaders are Readers.

Charles O. Jones
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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. -Alexander Chase
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A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

Leslie Ludy
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Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.

John G Agno
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. -Peter F. Drucker
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Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Max Depree
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren G. Bennis
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! -Omar Torrijos Herrera
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Omar Torrijos Herrera
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The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.

Max Cleland
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous. -Bill Bradley
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Peter F. Drucker
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates
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Leadership must be established from the top down. -Sam Rayburn
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