Top 34 Honesty And Leadership Quotes
#1. Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
Earl Weaver
#2. Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#3. Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
Sanford Biggers
#4. 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
#5. If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.
C.J. Sansom
#7. 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.
Jack Welch
#8. Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity.
Jean Sibelius
#9. Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#11. Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance - toward yourself!
Bryant McGill
#12. The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#13. The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
John Playfair
#14. I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B.R. Ambedkar
#17. It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
#20. There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#21. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
Pearl S. Buck
#22. Leadership's defining quality is honesty. To honesty, add fairness and consistency.
Cole C. Kingseed
#23. I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.
Teri Polo
#24. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#25. 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
#27. Creativity is the depth of the honesty you express towards your possibility.
Swami Nithyananda
#28. Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.
C. D. Broad
#29. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.
Michael Short
#30. It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership
men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
Harry S. Truman
#31. Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#32. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
Simon Sinek
#33. Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
Orly Wahba
#34. I don't want to tell you how much I love you. I just want to feel it deep in my heart.
Debasish Mridha