Quotes about Leadership And Integrity

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Cromwell. I am not such a hard man that I don't see how you are left. Do you know what I say? I say I don't know one man in England who would have done what you have done, for a man disgraced and fallen. The king says so. Even him, Chapuys, the Emperor's man, he says, you cannot fault what's-he-called. I say, it's a pity you ever saw Wolsey. It's a pity you don't work for me." "Well," he says, "we all want

I am humble enough to understand there are many people who know much more than I do on many subjects, so I listen to them. Integrity is also critical to leadership, so I believe there must always be alignment between what you think, say, and do.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

It takes time for people to understand how to hold leaders accountable.

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

He whose wisdom brings him into power, needs Goodness to secure that power. Else, though he get it, he will certainly lose it.

If I was president of the Slime Committee, I'd make it easier to come clean about shit. If coming clean is what you're supposed to do, then it should be made more fucken accessible, I say.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

My father used to speak to me often of the nature of power, Veredis said. One of the things he often lamented was that the only folk truly worthy to hold it were those who did not seek it.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

Can this be right? An angry leader? Indeed, Jesus had this quality, and when we use it rightly, we follow Him.

As to behavior, the leader must be respectable. A well-ordered life is the fruit of a well-ordered mind. The life of the leader should reflect the beauty and orderliness of God.

George Washington, in his famous Farewell Address, warned future generations "to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It's possible to have a leader you wouldn't choose as a friend. But you need to at least respect them.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.