Quotes About Character

So why do some people emerge as leaders while others can't influence no matter how hard they try? I believe that several factors come into play: 1. Character—who they are 2. Relationships—who they know 3. Knowledge—what they know 4. Intuition—what they feel 5. Experience—where they've been 6. Past Success—what they've done 7. Ability—what they can do

Good actions represent the dividing line between words and results.

Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility is being able to be honest about both.

No es la posición lo que hace al líder, sino el líder quien establece la posición.»

If you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain. Criticizing and censuring almost everyone you have to do with, will diminish friends, increase enemies, and hereby hurt you affairs.

Lo que usted es, es lo que usted atrae". Eso es cierto

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

DETERMINE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS.

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."5

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —Bernard Montgomery

Irresponsible leaders have a "me first" attitude and use their position for personal benefit.

Aunque tus circunstancias estén más allá de tu control, tu carácter no lo está. Tu carácter siempre es tu elección.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.

La honestidad no es algo que haces; la honestidad es quién eres».

Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.

with success come options. How we use those options reveals our character.

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." —Kahlil Gibran

Haz lo correcto día tras día. No existen atajos para las cosas que valen la pena.

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

Influence begins with who you are.

there is one quality

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.