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Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.