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Leaders Quotes by James MacGregor Burns
- In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
- To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes…
- 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…
- Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
- Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels…
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- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Grown men do not need leaders. — Edward Abbey
- Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. — Abu Bakar Bashir
- All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck
- Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren G. Bennis
- Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren G. Bennis