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I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community. Melanne Verveer
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. Muhammad Iqbal
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. Henry Kissinger
Alone Leadership Leader Unless Willing He Name Occasionally Does Stand Deserve
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. Vladimir Putin
Achievement People World Political Leader Nation Indeed System Tribute Economic Colony Could Economic System Talent Prosperous Most Years Historical Optimal American Move American People Phenomenon
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people. Bob Marley
Me People Words Word Leader Could Through Songs Message Attracts Messenger Am Passed Person Listen Jah Anybody Want
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
Alone Loneliness Leadership Leader Other Side Everything Must He Accept Always Act Acting Who Coin
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. Harold S. Geneen
People Leader Approach True Him Policy Genuine His Any Afraid Reason
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love. Henri Nouwen
Love Future God World Leader Own Nothing Christian Self Redeemed Because Vulnerable His Accomplish Offer Irrelevant Loves Us Created Stand Her
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. John C. Maxwell
Good Communicate Vision Leader Alive Must Leaders Clearly Come Until Continually However Models Creatively
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato
War People Fear Enemies Leader Nothing Other Tyrant Some More He Always Foreign Stirring Up May Order Them Then Require Conquest Treaty
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
People Judge Debate Leader Big Setting Aim Aim High High Must See Thus Himself Narrow Confines Form Ordinary Apart Ordinary People Who Widely
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed. Colin Powell
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer
Language Leader Visionary Must Idealist Talk Practical Realist
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. Indra Nooyi
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As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. Indra Nooyi
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The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks. Simon Sinek
Quality Leader Gives He Judged Answers Questions Cannot Ask
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. Theodore Roosevelt
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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. Toni Morrison
Responsibility Somebody Leader Take Being Being A Leader
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse
Responsibility Leader Think Those Clamor Take Cannot Themselves Who Need
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. James Humes
Leadership Mind Leader Active Secret Never Leaders Observers Passive Off Turns Even Spectators
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' Lao Tzu
Good Great People Leader Wicked Good Leader Despise Say Ourselves Great Leader People Say He Revere Did Who
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. Nelson Mandela
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene. Patrick Lencioni
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. Rosalynn Carter
Great People Leader Ought Great Leader Takes Go Where Want Necessarily
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. Sam Rayburn
You People Leader Too Other Unless Follow Know How Cannot Ask
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. Ayn Rand
Man Leader Wreck Course Heap His Scrap Being Who Lets Prescribe
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