A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
HAILE SELASSIEThere is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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Place principle above all else.
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