Top 98 Leadership Trust Quotes
#1. Integrity is the soul of leadership! Trust is the engine of leadership!
Amine A. Ayad
#2. On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
Andy Hargreaves
#3. Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.
Rick Warren
#4. Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.
Nigel Cumberland
#5. He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
Charles James Fox
#6. Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.
James F. Amos
#7. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E.Lee
#8. Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.
Judith M Bardwick
#9. Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard.
Chris Bent
#10. The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.
Kevin T. Cunningham
#11. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas
Tony Dovale
#12. We develop trust when we show that we are reliable, by doing what we say we are going to do to take care of that treasure, and then stepping it up by doing more, by anticipating problems and handling them before they even happen.
Michele Jennae
#13. Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni
#15. To get where we want to be, we must first trust, then make the leap of faith that our Heavenly Father will allow us to soar.
Tommy Jones
#16. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.
Lee Ellis
#17. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#19. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
#20. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.
Farshad Asl
#21. You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust.
Debasish Mridha
#22. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
Jeff Jarvis
#24. America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.
Ted Cruz
#25. Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
Stephen Covey
#26. Trying to influence another person without first establishing a relationship is like trying to boil water outside of a kettle. Trust, like the kettle, is the vessel in which all things work together to generate powerful action
Denis G. McLaughlin
#27. If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone.
Bill Mills
#28. A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.
Parker J. Palmer
#30. I use your trust in me to compel that will to action. That's leadership.
Robert J. Crane
#31. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
#32. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
Richie Norton
#33. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
Simon Sinek
#34. The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
Colin Powell
#35. Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.
Warren G. Bennis
#36. Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.
Lawrence M. Miller
#38. Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more...
Selena Rezvani
#39. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#40. Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.
David Amerland
#41. trust is the only thing that makes leadership possible".
John Brophy
#42. Facts and intuition are false opposites.
Leaders should listen to their intuition and instincts and allow others to do the same because they are sub-conscious, fast ways of processing, aggregating and then accessing evidence to reach a swift conclusion.
Trust your gut.
Phil Dourado
#44. Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
Robert Dallek
#45. True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.
Myles Munroe
#46. Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people "first." Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.
Beth Ramsay
#47. The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
Rick Warren
#48. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Kerry Patterson
#49. Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever.
Dan Pontefract
#50. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#51. In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
Stephen Covey
#52. If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.
Andy Stanley
#53. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#54. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#55. Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
Frances Wright
#56. Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
Andrew Zolli
#57. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself
Tony Dovale
#58. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.
Terry Pratchett
#59. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
Bob Etheridge
#61. When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
#62. Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#64. When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.
William A. Adams
#65. True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
#67. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#68. In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
John C. Maxwell
#69. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
Aaron Sorkin
#70. Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible
Jack Ma
#71. With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
#72. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
Johnny Hunt
#73. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
Veronica Roth
#75. Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
Stephen Covey
#76. The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart.
Robin Sharma
#78. I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#79. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#80. When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.
Phil Dourado
#81. We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.
Ricardo Semler
#82. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
Tony Dungy
#84. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.
Henry Kimsey-House
#85. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
Francois Hollande
#86. Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
Andy Hargreaves
#87. In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
Mike Krzyzewski
#88. Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
Sebastian Coe
#89. The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.
Miles Anthony Smith
#90. I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
Gautam Gambhir
#91. I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
Carly Fiorina
#92. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#93. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.
Stephen M.R. Covey
#94. Trust is equal parts character and competence ... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen Covey
#96. Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during my career is that you must be honest with everyone about everything.
Glen E. Morrell
#97. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
#98. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
