A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Lao Tzu
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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