Quotes About Authenticity

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

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.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

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.

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.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

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.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

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

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.