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Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership should be reflected in our national symbols and one appropriate way to do that is by finally making the changes needed to make Australia a republic... A country's history does not change because it takes a step forward, but its possibilities for the future do.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Surround our children with a message of honor

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Surround yourself with people smarter than you.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.