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When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

When people get drunk they do things they shouldn't do.

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

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.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

When you believe in someone, they will do anything and everything to live up to those who believe in.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

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.

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort.  No one leads well without paying the price of discipline.  As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.