Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." - Meaning and context.">
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As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143
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Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

— Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." in the context of "As quoted in Hearts Touched With Fire: My 500 Favorite Inspirational Quotations (2004) by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, p. 143" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976) was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.