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All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

All you need to do is know who you are.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

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.

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

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

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

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 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'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.

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.

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

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'?

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.