Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

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Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader. – Anonymous

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly. — Nelson Mandela

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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Any Idiot can point out a problem . A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action. – Simon Sinek

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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

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It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

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