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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be…

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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all…
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the…
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That…
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an…
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another…
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed…

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we… — Nehemiah Adams
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this… — Carl von Clausewitz
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate. — Tacitus
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life… — Michelle Obama
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. — Leon Trotsky
I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's… — Oprah Winfrey
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God,… — Pope Benedict XVI
The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid… — Pope Benedict XVI
Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this… — Martin Luther

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