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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn't count, the institution doesn't count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
There is no algorithm for creativity.
Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.
When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state.
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
Time is money.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.
Today make GOOD DECISIONS. Decide to selflessly serve others, to control your thoughts, to eat water-rich foods and to get lots of exercise.
My diet plan. 8am to 12noon: only fruits and fruit juice. Noon to 8pm: vegetarian meals. From 8pm to 8am the kitchen is CLOSED.
I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.
All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.
If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves
Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
It's hard to look at things that are too close.
[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
People learn to lead because they care about something.
The sky cannot have two suns.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.
Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.
The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.
