Quotes about Leadership And Integrity

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn't make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn't soil your own hands doing.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.

I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the peoples body.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

Astori was a great player on and off the pitch. He is a great example for all young men. I hope we never forget him. It's important to remember men like him.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

You'll never hear me say a negative thing about Donald Trump.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

Kent Masterson Brown

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

The Admiral's using us, he says to the kids around him. Don't you see that? Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. I'd rather be used whole than in pieces, Hayden says.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.