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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.
I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.
Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.
Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.