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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams Inspire, Actions, Dream A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr. Consensus, Genuine, Leader

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

John Quincy Adams

Inspire, Actions, Dream

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Consensus, Genuine, Leader

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Leader, Knows, Shows

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your

leadership.Nelson Mandela

Appreciate, Victory, Behind

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.George Washington Carver

Hope, Vision

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jobs

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Innovation, Leader, Follower

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy

Learning, Each

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow

Good, Blame, Credit

Don't find fault, find a remedy.Henry Ford

Remedy, Fault

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

Work, Best, Leader

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If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what

they can accomplish.Sam Walton

Amazing, Accomplish, Themselves

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They

have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Failure, Soldiers, Leading

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Management

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.Mitt Romney

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Excuses, Taking

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

Quality, Excellence, Yardstick

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

Quality, Standards, Themselves

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.Thomas Paine

Lead, Follow

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Time, Along, Today

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

Boss, Leader, Difference

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.Warren Bennis

Vision, Reality, Capacity

High expectations are the key to everything.Sam Walton

High, Key

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work

and deal with them.Paul Hawken

Work, Art, Good

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.Ronald Reagan

Light, Heat

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of

awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight

and focused attention.Deepak Chopra

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.Henry A. Kissinger

Leader, Task

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art, Getting, Wants

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.Roy E. Disney

Values, Decisions, Becomes

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.Theodore Roosevelt

Softly, Stick, Speak

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.Andrew Carnegie

Great, Credit, Himself

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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.Harold S. Geneen

Cannot, Learned, Taught

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.Jean-Paul Sartre

Time, Rowing, Rock

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey

Discipline, Effective, Management

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.George W. Bush

Time, Character, Means

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.Bill Bradley

Potential, Unlocking

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.William James

Act, Quality

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.James Cash Penney

Trust, Confidence, Worth

A leader is a dealer in hope.Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope, Leader, Dealer

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.Peter Drucker

Attributes, Effective, Results

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.John C. Maxwell

Leader, Vision, Buy

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?Donald Trump

Anyway

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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.Daniel Defoe

Head, Army, Lion

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.Max Lucado

Lead, Turn, Wants

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.John C. Maxwell

Enough, Others, Far

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefeller

Work, Good, Average

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.Thomas Szasz

Learning, Learn, Act

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.Larry Bird

Respect, Getting, Involved

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.Tom Peters

Management, Telling, Nurturing

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.J. P. Morgan

Far, Farther

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It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee Hock

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Change, Powerful, Weapon

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle

Fruit, Roots, Sweet

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.John Dewey

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Life, Itself

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.George Washington Carver

Freedom, Key, Door

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Accepting, Entertain, Educated

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.Sydney J. Harris

Mirrors, Purpose, Turn

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college

professors.Maya Angelou

Mother, Ignorance, Educated

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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

Change, Learn, Learned

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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Allan Bloom

Light, Darkness, Movement

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.Benjamin Franklin

Best, Knowledge, Investment

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

Government, Philosophy, Next

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

Beauty, Best, Educated

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Time, Admirable, Taught

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

Life, Future, Direction

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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.Daniel J. Boorstin

Learning

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

God, Boards, Idiots

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Truth, Knowledge, Goal

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Learning, Passion, Grow

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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

William Temple

Home, Child, Factors

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Temper, Almost, Listen

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

Car, Railroad, Gone

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Brain, Thinking, Lazy

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats

Filling, Lighting, Fire

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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall

Student, Forward, Moving

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor Hugo

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.Abraham Lincoln

Best, Books, Book

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.Ray Bradbury

Money, Book, Themselves

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.Abigail Adams

Learning, Ardor, Chance

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt

Society, Morals, Educate

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Learning, Child

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes

State, Youth, Foundation

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.Jean Piaget

Best, Knowledge, Chance

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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.William Godwin

Within, Reading, Reach

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein

Learning, Interferes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.Malcolm Forbes

Purpose, Mind, Replace

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.Mary Wollstonecraft

Great, Men, Women

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.Galileo Galilei

Again, Start, Advice

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.Horace Mann

Until, Full, Educated

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.Alvin Toffler

Future, Illiterate, Cannot

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins

Themselves, Lives, Object

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins

Life, History, Ideas

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.Gilbert K. Chesterton

Society, Another, Soul

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.Anatole France

Memory, Committed

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.Thomas Jefferson

Government, Whenever, Trusted

Change is the end result of all true learning.Leo Buscaglia

Change, Learning, True

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett

Liberty, Army, Standing

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.Walt Disney

Hope, Rather, Learned

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.James A. Baldwin

Society, Educated, Begins

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.John W. Gardner

Today, Often, Giving

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Friend, Enemy

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Understand, Qualities, Beautiful

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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Gift, Greatest

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.Helen Keller

Alone, Friend, Light

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Heart, Friends

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.Walter Winchell

Friend, Walks, Rest

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.Muhammad Ali

Learn, Meaning, Learned

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stupid, Blessings, Friends

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.Leo Buscaglia

Rose, Friend, Garden

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.Euripides

Love, Happiness, Friends

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.Albert Camus

Friend, Beside, Follow

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.Octavia Butler

Time, Art, Destiny

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.Thomas Aquinas

Earth, True, Prized

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Friends are born, not made.Henry Adams

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Friends, Born

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.Euripides

Friend, Loyal, Relatives

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.Henri Nouwen

Advice, Pain, Honestly

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friend

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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.Elbert Hubbard

Friend, Loves, Knows

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.William Penn

Friend, Adventures, True

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Marcel Proust

Souls, Gardeners, Blossom

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford

Best, Brings, Friend

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishes

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Khalil Gibran

Morning, Laughter, Sweetness

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.Jim Morrison

Freedom, Friend, Yourself

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Mencius

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We

should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to

survival.C. S. Lewis

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Art, Survival, Philosophy

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.Bill Watterson

Best, Friend, Quite

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.Margaret Walker

Good, Money, Friends

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A friend to all is a friend to none.Aristotle

Friend, None

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks

down.Oprah Winfrey

Breaks, Bus, Ride

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau

Language, Meanings, Words

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and

bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Silent, Despair, Friend

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.Ethel Barrymore

Time, Best, Friends

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than

those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

Trust, Adversity, Friend

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

Best, Ending, Bad

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

True, Rather, Friend

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, True, Ignorance

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

Born, Until, Friend

A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend, Yourself, Gift

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

Great, Hearted, True

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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

Friends, Since, Lose

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.William Butler Yeats

Strangers, Friends, Met

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to

live for others, they will live for you.Paramahansa Yogananda

True, Heart, Others

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Doug Larson

Success, True, Friend

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True, Care, Greatest

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True friends stab you in the front.Oscar Wilde

Friends, True, Front

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.Plautus

Friend, Heaven, Itself

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.Mencius

God, Friends, Gave

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has

known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in

impotence.Joseph Roux