#hip

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#choose #friends #gives #god #our

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#game-theory #interests #leadership #political-philosophy #leadership

We have to build the framework in which we will execute the tasks. ↗

— LTG Christianson

#management #planning #strategy #leadership

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#service #leadership

Some leaders are born women. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#leaders #leadership #politics #women #leadership

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#queen #spain #spanish-armada #leadership

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#economics-philosophy #grant #leadership #loans #leadership

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#between #characters #delicate #dragon #girl

I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#clearly #critical #going #hard #i

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#been #get #his #leader #people