Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
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Carrie Underwood
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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Audrey Niffenegger
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Flannery OConnor
Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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Nora Roberts
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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Robert H. Schuller
More Quotes By Colin Powell
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.