Quotes about Authentic Leadership

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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

Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.

I am no politician.

My biggest strength is I'm not a career politician.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

I'm the kind of leader who would try to have honest and difficult conversations.

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.

You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.

If you hang around political talkers or strategists much, you're likely to hear a lot about authenticity. This is supposed to be the golden currency which we all look for in our leaders.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.

A very important lesson for Leaders comes from children's fairytale 'The Little Mermaid'. You should always be yourself rather than trying to be someone else, particularly an impossible ideal that exists only in your imagination. The Little Mermaid changed herself to become a human so as to win her Prince's love, and yet the Prince married someone else. That's life! In my view, Leaders should always strive to be natural and proud of who they are.

Some people talk the talk, while some walk the walk. Very few people walk the talk. You should strive to be among those very few walk-the-talkers, who change our world for better.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.