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Leadership is the ability to do, not the ability to state


Paul Von Ringelheim

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SOTONYE ANGA Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Leadership is not always about your power, it's all about your ability to empower, encourage, and el...
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UNKNOWN It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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LISA RICHARDSON One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
ARNOLD GLASGOW One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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ABIGAIL VAN BUREN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to hi...
F. G. “BUCK” RODGERS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact t...
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DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
ELBERT HUBBARD It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test...
ELBERT HUBBARD It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on you...
BRYANT MCGILL Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The state of our economy is tightly tied to the ability of our citizens to purchase needed fuel,
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ELLIOT HARRIS Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
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ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to re...
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ROBERT HALF It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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JOHN G AGNO Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lea...
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KANWAR CHADHA Power is the ability not to have to please.
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ROB BELL Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
NANCY REAGAN Power is the ability to do good things for others.
BROOKE ASTOR Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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DANIEL KAHNEMAN Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Dollars = Energy = The Ability to do things.
SOLLY TAMARI When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to r...
CHRIS GIBSON Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.
AMIT KALANTRI Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. ...
JONATHAN SACCONE-JOLY Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
SALMAN KHURSHID The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its abili...
GENE RODDENBERRY There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It i...
ELBERT HUBBARD The ability to do what is right is what rewards us eventually.
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BILL PERKINS When we talk about what we want to do with this state, I think we have to be mindful of the fact tha...
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MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
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PHILIP WARREN ANDERSON One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
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