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"As I see it now, leadership is character, and the process of becoming
a leader is much the same as becoming an integrated human being."
- Warren
Bennis
"If things are not going well with you,
begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the
service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are
rendering it."
- Roger Babson
"Be really whole and all things will
come to you."
- Lao-Tzu
"There is no substitute for character.
You can buy brains, but you cannot buy character.."
- Robert A. Cook
"The one thing that doesn't abide by
majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee
"If I take care of my character my
reputation will take care of itself."
- D. L. Moody
"The number one criterion in every
C.E.O. search we do today is integrity. That used to be assumed.
No one had to mention it. Not any more."
- Gerard R. Roche,
Heidrick and Struggles Senior Chairman
"Life's greatest achievement is the
continual re-making of yourself so that at last you know how to live."
- Winfred Rhodes
"With courage you will dare to take
risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity."
- Keshavan Nair
"If there is righteousness in the
heart there will be beauty in the character. If there be beauty in the
character there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the
home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world."
- Chinese Proverb
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes
go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and
character fixes our destiny."
- Tryon Edwards
"Integrity is the cornerstone of
free enterprise, and all leaders need a clear teachable point of view on
it."
- Noel Tichy
"If you have integrity, nothing else
matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
- Alan Simpson
"Personality can open doors, but
only character can keep them open."
- Elmer G. Leterman
"Never esteem anything as of
advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy
self-respect."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Ethical living is the indispensable
condition of all that is most worthwhile in the world."
- Ernest Caldecott
"Love and truth form a good leader;
sound leadership is founded on loving integrity."
- Proverbs 20:28 MSG
"Have the courage to say no.
Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is
right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
- W. Clement Stone
"Reform must come from within, not
from without. You cannot legislate for virtue."
- Cardinal James
Gibbons
"When looking to hire people, look
for three essential qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And
if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."
- Warren Buffet
"Optimism is true moral courage."
- Ernest Shackleton
"Completeness is to be found only in
the complemental talents of several who relate as equals."
- Robert Greenleaf
"Character consists of what you do
on the third and fourth tries."
- James Michner
"Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there."
- John Wooden
"One can acquire everything in
solitude... except character."
- Stendahl
"Character is power."
- Booker T.
Washington
"The expedient thing and the right
thing are seldom the same thing."
- Charles Brower
"Leadership failures are usually
failures of character."
- Michael C.
Ruettgers EMC Corporation Board Chairman
"Without integrity you are going to
be dead as a leader... and it's going to be true throughout your career."
- Noel Tichy
"Without all three ingredients -
drive, competence and a moral compass - it is difficult for leaders to
engage others and sustain meaningful results."
- Peter Drucker
"Integrity has no need of rules."
- Albert Camus
"There can be no friendship without
confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
- Samuel Johnson
"Nothing is at last sacred but the
integrity of your own mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The supreme quality for leadership
is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it's on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or
in an office."
- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"There is evidence suggesting that
only from the depths of integrity are we humans empowered to reach upward
with our finest creative talents."
- Robert Cooper &
Ayman Sawaf
"Personality can open doors, but
only character can keep them open."
- Elmer G. Leterman
"Integrity must be felt and lived.
Good governance cannot fix a lousy business; however bad governance can ruin
a good business."
- Dan Burnham
(former CEO, Raytheon)
"Honor lies in honest toil."
- Grover Cleveland
"No good thing will God withhold
from those who walk with integrity."
- Psalms
"I have brought myself by long
meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must
accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even
existence upon its accomplishment."
- Disraeli
"Always vote for a principle, though you
vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never
lost."
- John Quincy Adams
"I don't know what your destiny will
be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
- Dr. Albert
Schweitzer
"A good name is seldom regained.
When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life
is lost forever."
- J. Hawes
"You exist as a part inherent in a
greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you.
The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Genuine beginnings begin within us,
even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
- William Bridges
"There is a divinity which shapes
our ends – but we can help by listening for its voice."
- Kathleen Norris
"Wherever man goes to dwell, his
character goes with him."
- African Proverb
"The man who cannot believe in
himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity
and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity."
- Roy L. Smith
"Those who preserve their integrity
remain unshaken by the storms of daily life. They do not stir like
leaves on a tree or follow the heard where it runs. In their mind remains
the ideal attitude and conduct of living. This is not something given
to them by others. It is their roots... it is a strength that lives
deep within them."
- Anonymous Native
American
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