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We cannot all be masters.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

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.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.

We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.