"The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you."

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Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

Eva Cox

#Leadership Quotes #Essence Quotes #People Quotes

“Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.”
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that theyâ€™d actually made some sort of choice.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“Where liberty dies, evil grows.”
“Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.”
“Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, Penguin
“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .”
“I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.”
“There is no patch for stupidity.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 18, 2012

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