"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Leaders and Leadership
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Worry
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"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Christians and Christianity
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Service
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Revenge
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"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it."

Adelman, Ken on Leaders and Leadership
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"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings."

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"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."

Allen, Norman on Leaders and Leadership
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on Leaders and Leadership
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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on Leaders and Leadership
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on Leaders and Leadership
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"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

Bennis, Warren on Leaders and Leadership
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"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Vision
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Violence
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Change
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Humor
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Marriage
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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Policy
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Potential
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Power
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Quality
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"All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Responsibility
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Action
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Change
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"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Leaders and Leadership
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