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81 " One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things. "
― Elizabeth George , A Woman's High Calling
82 " Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral? "
― Awdhesh Singh , The Secret Red Book of Leadership
83 " A man may have ‘his moment,’ and that moment endure for decades, or only for the few seconds it takes for a bullet to travel across a courtyard to the balcony upon which he stands as he exhorts his people to follow him. "
― Ralph E. Vaughan , Amidst Dark Satanic Mills (Folkestone & Hand, # 2)
84 " The fifth stage is one of waste and squandering. In this stage, the ruler wastes on pleasures and amusements the treasures accumulated by his ancestors, through excessive generosity to his inner circle. Also, he acquires bad low-class followers to whom he entrusts the most important matters of state, which they are not qualified to handle by themselves, not knowing which of them they should tackle and which they should leave alone. The ruler seeks to destroy the great clients of his people and followers of his predecessors. (...)Thus, he ruins the foundations his ancestors had laid and tears down what they had built up. In this stage, the dynasty is seized by senility and the chronic disease from which it can hardly ever rid itself, for which it can find no cure, and eventually it is destroyed. "
― Ibn Khaldun
85 " A leader must be responsible for his people not his personal interest. "
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86 " Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other rooms into a state of vague ecstasy, while he contemplated the small sheet of water outside the window. It was that happy frame of mind into which his people could project themselves so easily - the mere absence of immediate unpleasant preoccupation could start it off, and a landscape which included the sea, a river, a fountain, or anything that occupied the eye without engaging the mind, was of use in sustaining it. It was the world behind the world, where reflection precludes the necessity for action, and the calm which all things seek in death appears briefly in the guise of contentment, the spirit at last persuaded that the still waters of perfection are reachable. "
― Paul Bowles , The Spider's House
87 " And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God. And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.' -Alma the Younger (Alme 7:10-12) "
― , The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
88 " Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential. "
89 " Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer. A good old divine remarks, " Many times Jesus and His people pull against one another in prayer. You bend your knee in prayer and say 'Father, I will that Thy saints be with me where I am'; Christ says, 'Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am. "
90 " A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through " inward work" , i.e. working on them from the inside. "
91 " ...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of. "
92 " The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving. "
― Brent Weeks , The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, #2)
93 " He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm "
― Sun Tzu , The Art of War
94 " It was easier to not have to explain, anyway. To not have to tell him that though I'd freed him, saved his people and all of Prythian from Amarantha... I'd broken myself apart. And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me. "
― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
95 " There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love. "
96 " God loves His people despite their sins and faults. "
― Jim George
97 " No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God. "
― , Joshua: Mighty Warrior And Man Of Faith
98 " A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs. "
99 " Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him "
100 " If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. "