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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a habit that can be learned.
Unknown
Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
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
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
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
Douglas MacArthur
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren Bennis
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
Brené Brown
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is not something you have. It's something you earn.
Alina Tugend
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is the key to great leadership.
Bill McDermott
Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Carolyn Jourdan
Empathy is the first step in building a community.
Elizabeth Lesser
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It is the foundation of leadership.
Farshad Asl
The function of leadership is to create more leaders, not followers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Peter Drucker
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
Shigeo Shingo
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.
Brian Tracy
The greatest leaders are willing to admit their mistakes and learn from them.
John C. Maxwell
The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.
John Wooden
The greatest leaders are those who empower others.
Bill Gates
The greatest leaders are those who serve others.
Unknown
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.
John Wooden
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Anonymous
Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
Peter Drucker
Innovation is the key to success in this fast-changing world.
Li Ka-shing
Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.
James Kouzes
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
Brian Tracy
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Integrity is the backbone of your character. Your character is the foundation of your leadership.
Unknown
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. MacDonald
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Brian Tracy
Integrity is the key to building trust and respect in any team or organization.
Unknown
Integrity is not just a virtue, it's the key to effective leadership.
Unknown
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney
Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
Adaptability is the key to survival in the modern era.
Deepak Chopra
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura
Adaptability is not an option, it's a necessity.
Unknown
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
John Wooden
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Leadership is not about being the boss. It's about taking care of those who are in your charge.
Tony Dungy
The only way to do great work is to first love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown
Passion is the difference between having a job and having a career.
Unknown
Passion is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Passion is the starting point of all great achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination.
Anthony Robbins
Passion is your greatest asset in becoming a successful leader.
Unknown
Passion is not optional. It's the fuel that drives us to do great things.
Simon Sinek
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