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Quotes on Leadership

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:55:38 +0000

(1) Leader: a speaker of words and doer of deeds.
(2) They should rule who are able to rule best.
(3) In the highest position there is the least freedom of action.
(4) The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
(5) Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
(6) Some are born great; some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
(7) We cannot all be masters.
(8) A leader has the ability to serve and to allow others to serve him.
(9) The ambitious man has as many masters as there are who can help his career.
(10) Great and good are seldom the same man.
(11) The subject’s love is the king’s best guard.
(12) If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
(13) The best leaders know they can serve and save the country.
(14) Great offices will have great talents.
(15) One can’t reign and be innocent.
(16) No one can rule guiltlessly.
(17) You cannot accomplish good for the people unless you face up to the weak and the foolish.
(18) You do not inspire confidence: you are too good.
(19) It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
(20) It is not with words and explanations of theory that nations are governed.
(21) The heart of a statesman must be in his head.
(22) The simple argument-two and two make four.
(23) One must be something in order to do something.
(24) A statesman must possess good sense and the courage to show that he has it.
(25) If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
(26) To be great is to be misunderstood.
(27) The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
(28) You have to be like the pebble in the stream, rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
(29) Man is truly great only when he acts from the passions.
(30) The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently– the point is to change it.
(31) There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
(32) Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
(33) One person with a belief is a power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
(34) To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.
(35) To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
(36) A leader must not be a monster like the monster he conquered.
(37) What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for or accomplish something?
(38) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
(39) Great men are like great mountains: one has to stand from a distance to realize their greatness.
(40) It is at a dark night when faith in light is admirable.
(41) We do not admire a man of timid peace.
(42) A leader is as big as the persons who believe in him.
(43) If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
(44) One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. Supply the light, not heat.
(45) Political and social changes take place when men are willing to take reasoned risks.
(46) The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost won.
(47) Glory is given only to those who dream of it.
(48) Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rush.
(49) We may make mistakes-but not mistakes which result from abandonment of moral principle.
(50) The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him the conviction and will to carry on.
(51) There is nothing more agreeable than to make peace with the Establishment – and nothing more corrupting.
(52) Leadership-the ability to get men to do what leaders don’t want to do, and to like it.
(53) A great man’s greatest luck is to die at the right time.
(54) The leader is always alone in times of doom.
(55) Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
(56) No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut and acts.
(57) No man can take the place of a whole people.
(58) Idols have feet of clay.
(59) If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for he is not fit to live.
(60) You cannot ask others to follow you unless you know how to follow too.
(61) I am alone with the masses.
(62) Charismatic leadership is hungered for but at the same time we fear it.
(63) Men of power have no time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power.
(64) Hard work-that is the recipe for great leadership.
(65) We want the best leaders. The trouble is they don’t get elected.
(66) A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
(67) The real leader has no need to lead-he points the way.
(68) A leader is a dealer in hope.
(69) What you cannot enforce, do not command.
(70) The leader must know, must know he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. ###

Simple Ways to Stay Green and Cool This Summer

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:25:42 +0000

With all the hype about going green and saving Mother Earth , are you green-out or overwhelmed by this responsibility? Or are you asking yourself what you can do to play your part? Plenty, even if you are not an enthused environmentalist or a green activist. Even the little you do can create a huge impact in the long run. And what better time to start than this summer, where challenges abound with soaring temperatures?

Summer–lazy hot afternoon and warm nights. Days at the pool, at the beach, in the background firing up the grill. Days of air-conditioning and hiding indoors in the heat of the day–television gawking or computer surfing. Time to take flights to destination far and wide for the much needed vacation. Lots of opportunities for using energy and lots of good excuses too. If you take a step back and re-evaluate, you can actually enjoy all the perks of summer without leaving hefty footprints all over planet. Here is how:

Turn off the TV and computer too

Right, get off the couch and do some activities outside the house. Summer offers ample outdoor possibilities. Not only will you save energy otherwise expanded by hours of television watching and computer hogging, but you will reap the benefits of some good old fashioned outdoor activity. Take a nature walk. Too hot? Swim in the comforts of your own pool, or your neighbor’s or the community. Shoot balls with your children. Activities like these and more (you can get creative) help to gel family and friends together. Cheap, clean fun with no down side.

Easy on the Air-conditioning

So the tendency is to turn on the cool button on your air-conditioning when the air grows warm around you. There are cool green alternatives to this inevitable problem. You can cool your house the au naturale way–open your windows, especially ones facing south and north. With the shades down, but windows open, cross ventilation may just be the answer. If you’re still feeling the heat, turn on the fan instead, as they consume way less energy than the humming air conditioning unit. Don’t have a fan? Make one. Newspaper, magazine or even your outdoor concert brochure–they can be transform easily into portable, creative fan powered by your own muscle. Couldn’t be more eco-friendly. If you must have the air-conditioning, crank it up a few degrees, ideally 78 degrees as it is most energy efficient.

Cool Treats

Summer is a good time to round up family and friends for some cool treats. See? You can be cool and green at the same time. You can make popsicles as a family project to be served on warm days. Frozen fruit treats are easy to make. Eating food rich in water content can help hydrate and cool the body. Watermelon game, anyone?

Gasonomics

Instead of driving miles in search of summer fun, plan activities with low environmental impacts. Walk to the local park, go to a nearby zoo, head out to the nearest beach to chill. Read a book in the cool comfort of your lounge chair instead of vying with the summer crowd at the theater. Play water games in your backyard instead of driving miles away to a water park. Less driving means less carbon monoxide emission. Translation? Easy on the pocket and good for the environment.

Grilling 101

What is summer without backyard barbecues? However, using briquettes to cook a standard hamburger produce 105 times more carbon monoxide than using a propane grill. What’s more? Briquettes give off harmful Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) when burned.

Plant a garden, Grow Green Awareness

Summer time is a good time to plant a vegetable garden. What can be more organic than vegetables hailed from your own backyard? Or what could be more eco-friendly since your vegetables just need to travel from the backyard to your kitchen to be enjoyed. Get your kids to help you pick the kind of vegetables they like and make it a family project. This get-down-and-dirty green project not only will ensure your supply of vegetables in the months ahead, it will help your kids appreciate nature. And who better to entrust the world to than a future generations of nature lovers?

Smart Shopping

School is out and this is good time to take your kids shopping at the local market. Farmer’s market is a good place to start. Supporting local farmers help to cut cost in transportation and reduce energy use. While you’re out shopping, don’t forget to tote your canvas bags and tout a little of the importance of going green. A little fact to impress your kids: In an average year, American households used about 100 billion plastic bags of which 99% are never recycled. A little education, a little shopping and a whole lot of green awareness.

There you have it. Seven simple things you can do to support the longevity of Planet Earth. You can do one a day and feel terribly accomplished at the end of the week, or you can pick and combine. The more, the merrier. Going green may take a little lifestyle adjustment but that little adjustment goes a long way. After all, as someone said, “When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.”