logo

Quotes About Integrity

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Good leaders must first become good servants.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
Leadership does not mean domination.
~ Haile Selassie
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
~ Marva Collins
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
~ Cory Booker
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.
~ Dave Ulrich
Popularity is not leadership.
~ Richard Marcinko
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
~ Stephen Covey
Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
~ Frances Hesselbein
Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.
~ James Stockdale
Leadership is a choice, not a position
~ Stephen Covey
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
~ Michael Eisner
Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
~ Laura Bush
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
~ John McCain
Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
~ John M. Perkins
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf