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You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

You can't lead people you don't believe in.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.

You can't teach court savvy

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

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.

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.