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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

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
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Focus Future Mirror Review
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
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Kindness Necessary Need Yourself
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Goodness High Myself Organization Standard
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Essence Leadership Trust
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
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
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Animal Dirty End Fight Yourself
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Generation Important Need Success
Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.
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Failure People Success
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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Accomplishment Art Leadership Management Possible
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Decision Fact Goodness Stand Way
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Best Connection Creation Job Resources Team Training Way Yourself
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Action Condition Destiny Energy Fulfillment Health Organism
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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Deal Experience Failure Learning Life Yourself
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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Attitude Excellence Prevail

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