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At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

Be a leader, not a superior.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Begin to live each day as if it was your last.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Being good is good business

Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

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.