Quotes about Character In Leadership

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

El denominador común del liderazgo, es la integridad.

A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

Avram is a character. Sitting in team meetings, you realise what a positive person and manager he is.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Good leadership isn't about what you say but what you do.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

A princess attracts a prince, and a queen attracts a king. Women who whine attract men who whine. Women full of the lioness heart attract men who are full of the lion.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Almost seventy-five percent of our leaders have come right out of Willow. These are people who have proven their character, competence, and chemistry fit while serving in volunteer positions within our ministry.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.