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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

Make sure you are passionate about the vision.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.