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The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.

Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

Those players really believe in him.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Time is money.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.