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Leadership Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
- Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
- Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any…
- Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
- When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true…
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- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
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- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
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