Top 37 Character In Leadership Quotes
#1. Character in leadership comes down to two questions: Would you trade places with anyone under your command? Do you hold yourself to the same level of accountability as those for whom you bear responsibility?
Gary J. Byrne
#2. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
#3. In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
Baron De Montesquieu
#4. Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
Vince Lombardi
#5. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#6. Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
John Baldoni
#7. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
M.J. Stoddard
#8. One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
C.L.R. James
#9. The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.
Neal A. Maxwell
#11. Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.
Max Anders
#12. The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis of leadership is a crisis of character.
Aubrey Malphurs
#13. Perfecting your character isn't a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.
Orly Wahba
#15. Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Louis Farrakhan
#16. Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#17. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham
#18. The present goal of the individual
in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
Donald Barthelme
#19. One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.
Hope Solo
#20. Leadership is first and foremost bout character, one who is in power but not subordinate to it, one has control of money but is not lured by it, one whose position opens all doors but prefers the simplicity of lifestyle, and one who is followed by many but takes the heart of a servant.
Wilfrido V. Villacorta
#21. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Steve Waugh
#22. Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
Vince Lombardi
#23. From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Abigail Adams
#24. Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
Vince Lombardi
#25. Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#26. The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#27. Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi
#29. The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
Vince Lombardi
#30. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
#31. If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.
Paul Enenche
#33. The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
Allan Houston
#34. In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.
Mike Ayers
#35. Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.
Ted Malloch
