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Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

Leadership is a choice, not a position. Stephen Covey

Leadership, Choice

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it. Henry Petroski

Change, Change The World, World, Study

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. Sun Tzu

Art, War, Chance, Enemy, Own, Fact

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Hair, Fun, Joy, Dress, Beginning

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't. Colin Kaepernick

Change, People, Stand, Voice, Seeing

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. - Karl Marx

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Karl Marx

Progress, Sex, Social, Measured, Female

When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too. Peggy Rathmann

Family, Sister, Good, Effort, Brother

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. Jessica Lange

Mother, Children, Motherhood, Mom, You

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. George Allen, Sr.

Life, Hope, Learn, Fighting, You, Desire

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. Thomas J. Stanley

Leadership, Courage, School, Measure

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams

Character, Power, Society, Authority

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together. Colin Powell

Work, Tough Times, Together, Listening

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. Piet Mondrian

Relationship, Why, Colour, Principal

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Obstacles, Trying

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx

History, Great, Progress, Impossible

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell

Wisdom, Ego, Avoid, Close, Your, Having

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Darkness, Painting, Rest, Sight

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell

Truth, Man, Power, Moral, More, Working

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. Les Brown

Comfort Zone, Yourself, You, Comfort

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. Jessica Valenti

Power, Justice, Racism, Woman, Movement

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. Nikola Tesla

Drawing, Me, Fate, Long, Company, Irony

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. Anthony J. D'Angelo

Leader, You, Order, Hold

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment. John Paulson

Strategy, Attention, Stock Market, Down

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position. Jennie Finch

Yourself, Shine, Amazing, Lost, Perfect

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. Queen Rania of Jordan

Day, Values, End, End Of The Day, Go

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Obstacles, Overcome, Much

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