Leader Quotes - Page 25

• Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

  Tony Benn

  Class, Middle, Establishment

  Tony Benn (1987). “Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67”, Hutchinson Radius

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• It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.

  Amy Ziering

  Dream, Military, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Children, Identity, Important

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• President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

  Danny Glover

  Running, Country, School

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Real, Iraq, Self

  "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

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• So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.

  Malik Yusef

  Community, Way, Gang

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

  Azadeh Moaveni

  Kind, Judiciary

  "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

  Jim Rohn

  Matter, Able, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 07, 2015

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• In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

  Alexei Navalny

  Independent, Russia, People

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• I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Psychological, Habit, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Facts, Spirituality

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• People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.

  Bill Jensen

  Shoes, People, Inspire

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• If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Followers, Know How

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Helping Others, Done

  "Simon Sinek: A Good Leader Serves". www.askmen.com.

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• Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

  Seth Godin

  Giving, Productive

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• Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pain, Confused, People

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• The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's  presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Voice, People

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• Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.

  Albert Mohler

  Followers, Passionate, Belief

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.37, Baker Books

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• Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

  Donald Trump

  Team, Responsibility, Taking Responsibility

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• True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

  Carmine Gallo

  People, Inspire, Vision

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• Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

  Joseph C. Rost

  Real, Purpose, Followers

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• Its so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you arent certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

  Anne F. Beiler

  Important, Purpose, Certain

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