"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on Leaders and Leadership
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"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

Depree, Max on Leaders and Leadership
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Crook, James on Leaders and Leadership
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"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."

Batten, Joe on Leaders and Leadership
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"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Leaders and Leadership
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"Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Leaders and Leadership
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"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

Brecht, Bertolt on Leaders and Leadership
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"When we think we lead we are most led."

Byron, Lord on Leaders and Leadership
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"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

Scott, Robert Falcon on Heroes and Heroism
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"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on Story and Story-Telling
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"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season."

Wu-Men on Worry
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"I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity."

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on Trust
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"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."

Carlyle, Thomas on Youth
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"I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

Webster, Daniel on Originality
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"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."

Lincoln, Mary Todd on Procrastination
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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

Rushdie, Salman on Thoughts and Thinking
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"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

Rohn, Jim on Responsibility
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"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on Innovation
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"New roads; new ruts."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Progress
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Evenus on Action
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"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

Bible on Friends and Friendship
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Action
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"There are only two ways to get a new customer: 1. solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers."

Zeitz, Ed on Customers
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"It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech."

Kennedy, Dan on Audiences
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."

Lao-Tzu on Cunning
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on Endurance
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"Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker."

Runes, Dagobert D. on Judgment and Judges
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"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Pessimism
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on Pain
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"Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times."

Virgil on Hope
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Carlyle, Thomas on Age and Aging
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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on Communication
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Freud, Sigmund on Repression
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"Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee."

Courtney, Margaret on Fathers
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on Listening
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on Body
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"Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!"

Unknown, Source on Seasons
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"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year."

Nash, Ogden on Seasons
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"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on Example
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"The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning."

Hoffer, Eric on Novelty
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