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How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
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.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
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.
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
Today make GOOD DECISIONS. Decide to selflessly serve others, to control your thoughts, to eat water-rich foods and to get lots of exercise.
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership.
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.