"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
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"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
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"Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you."
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"The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also."
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"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly."
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"Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic"
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"In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed."
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
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"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
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"True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done."
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
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"Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself."
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"I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones."
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"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."
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"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
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