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Quotes About Leadership

Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.
~ Melina Marchetta
my dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions.
~ Melina Marchetta
They travel in packs and trust each other with all their hearts. It doesn't mean they have the capacity to love more than us, but they do know how to trust. It's because of their queen and her father before her and his father before him. The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.
~ Melina Marchetta
Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
~ Melina Marchetta
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
~ Melinda Gates
Remember, whoever holds the purse strings for the wedding has the control. Don't accept a cent from anyone else if possible. Then you and him will be the only ones calling the shots. All the decisionswill be yours and the rest of them will just have to go along with it.
~ Unknown
The Red Cross nurses came out to the train to give us coffee and doughnuts. Our officer, our captain, who was white, he said serve the Germans first. Our Red Cross nurses said, no, we'll serve our boys first.
~ Unknown
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
~ Melvil Dewey
We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors.
~ Unknown
We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.
~ Melvyn Bragg
On the PLO : "I agree on the P, I agree on the O, I don't agree on the L
~ Menachem Begin
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.
~ Mencius
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
~ Mencius
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
~ Mencius
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest.
~ Mencius
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
~ Mencius
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
~ Mencius
Never ever judge a person in the first degree of his/her bad deeds or says, being a smart leader, you must give him/her the opportunity to come back up on his/her conscience, in order to shed credible light on the beauty of the facts.
~ Unknown
Never judge a person in the first degree of his/her bad actions or says, being a smart leader, you must give him/her the opportunity to come back to his conscience, in order to shed credible light on the beauty of the facts.
~ Unknown
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
~ Merlin Olsen
Among the Mediterraneans," wrote Seltman, "as a general rule society was built around the woman, even on the highest levels where descent was in the female line. A man became king or chieftain only by a formal marriage and his daughter, not his son, succeeded so that the next chieftain was the youth who married his daughter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Until the northerners arrived, religion and custom were dominated by the female principle.
~ Merlin Stone
Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.
~ Unknown
Don't let the world walk all over you. show the world who's walking on top.
~ Unknown
Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?
~ Mia Couto