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Leadership.

Guiding others with vision, integrity, and purpose.

“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”

“All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”

“Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.”

John C. Maxwell

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”

“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“Blessed are those who need no reasons other than their love for the Savior to keep his commandments.”

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

John C. Maxwell

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

“A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.”

“For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.”

“An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.”

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”

“Easy choices lead to a hard life. Hard choices, lead to an easy life. Hard actions, hard decisions, hard conversations. Your dream life is on the other side of discomfort.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

Martin Luther King

“The statement that only science can lead to truth is not itself deduced from science. It is not a scientific statement but rather a statement about science, that is, it is a metascientific statement. Therefore, if scientism's basic principle is true, the statement expressing scientism must be false. Scientism refutes itself hence it is incoherent.”

“If we look closely at this world, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is he, who, after all, commands the most fidelity and the most love.”

“There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

John C. Maxwell

“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”

Japanese proverbs

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

Thomas Jefferson

“It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.”

“The desert fills men’s hearts with visions”

“Learn from your mistakes, only work with people who share your vision and culture and most importantly, focus on your customer.”

“We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them.”

“Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.”

John C. Maxwell

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

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

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”