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Leadership Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
- If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
- The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as…
- Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
- Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean…
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- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
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