Quotes about Leadership And Integrity

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Booker T. Washington

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

When we don't take God too seriously, others don't take our leadership too seriously!

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Great men have great dogs.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

see 1 Sam. 22:28).

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

You can't be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness.

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.