Quotes about Authentic Leadership

We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.

Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'

We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing

Be the leader that doesn´t need a title to be followed.

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

Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities".

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

To make blatant racial appeals or just blatant appeals only targeted to the LGBTQ+ community, I didn't think that that was a winning formula, and it's also inconsistent with who I am.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Your authority in part comes from your authenticity, the authenticity of your struggles and your flawed humanity.

Leaders who try to dissolve that distance through a false chumminess gradually lose the ability to inspire loyalty, fear, or love. Instead they elicit contempt.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

the performance rating of a manager cannot be higher than the one we would accord to his organization! It is very important to assess actual performance, not appearances; real output, not good form.

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

For me to just be a face on something, I'd look at myself and be disappointed. I'd rather be the person behind the scenes making the show.

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.

Where I've been able to be successful in our company's path is the fact that people think that we kill it, because they don't see our failures. Because we don't talk about them.