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I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Constitution Discrimination Origin Reason
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Image Job Position Yourself
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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Curiosity Goodness Leadership People
The greatest gifts my parents gave to me were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Gift Greatness Love Myself Parents Value
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Achievement Attitude Development Excellence Yourself
Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Earn Follow Leadership Mandatory Respect
Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Advantage Afraid Challenge
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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Communication Leadership Team Vision Yourself
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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Children Failure Imitation Ourselves
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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Important Influence Life Live Touch Value
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Data Expert Judgement Possession

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