Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

Max De Pree's Popular Quotes

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

- Max De Pree

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give a…

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The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

- Max De Pree

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

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By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

- Max De Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

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In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

- Max De Pree

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

- Max De Pree