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William Shakespeare

We cannot all be masters.

Topic: Leadership
Location: Olympic National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

More Quotes from William Shakespeare

For courage mounteth with occasion. — William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare

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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. — William Shakespeare

Goals Purpose Virtue Vision Visualize

I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice. — William Shakespeare

Communication Listening Speech

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare

Adversity Grief

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears. — William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. — William Shakespeare

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. — William Shakespeare

Action is eloquence. — William Shakespeare

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A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. — Michel de Montaigne

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. — Oscar Wilde

Make haste slowly. Things are improving by time. — Abraham Lincoln

Living well is the best revenge. — George Herbert

My friends were poor, but honest. — William Shakespeare

Friendship Honesty Honor Truth

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. — Virginia Woolf

Freedom Liberty Self Thinking

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. — Aeschylus

Friendship Trust

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy. — William Shakespeare

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

› Albert Schweitzer

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Equality is not easy, but superiority is painful. — Ethiopian Proverb

Leadership Team Teamwork

Character matters; leadership descends from character. — Rush Limbaugh

Character Leadership

Never doubt your efforts—one person can make an enormous difference. — Nelson Mandela

Confidence Leadership Self Self-esteem

You reach your real height when you stand up for what you believe. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Belief Leadership

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

› Kenyan Proverb

Advice Leadership Listening

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

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A person that relies on title and not performance isn't a true leader. — Jeffrey Benjamin

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

› African Proverb

Criticism Leadership

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Leadership Power

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Accountability Character Leadership Self

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. — Henry Van Dyke

Awareness Leadership Perception Power Self

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain

Character Integrity Leadership

I ask directions from one who has been there. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Goals Leadership

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Leadership Purpose

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. — Rochefoucauld

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Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Leadership Self

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

› Nelson Mandela

Using fear as a form of submission is the tale of a false leader. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Our lives are a continuing journey–and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling but always moving toward the finest within us. — Captain Gerald L. Coffee

Leadership Learning

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Leadership Life Reputation Respect Time

Effective communicators are the most powerful people in the world. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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