"To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them."

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Source : James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

James MacGregor Burns

#Goal Quotes #Leader Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.”
“Like your job. Love your wife.”
“When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.”
“I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.”
“Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.”
“Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.”
“I loved all the world's mythologies.”

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