Quotes About Integrity In Leadership

#1. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

Roy Bennett

#2. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

Scott K. Edinger

#3. The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.

Kevin T. Cunningham

#4. Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How

Pat Williams

#5. Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

Molly Friedenfeld

#6. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...

Brandon Sanderson

#7. I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that has a great record of high-quality leadership and a culture of integrity.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#8. The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. 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

#10. Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

David Cottrell

#11. 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

#12. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Eric Shinseki

#13. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#14. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Denis Waitley

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.

Delma Pryce

#18. We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Peter Cosgrove

#19. Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.

Paul Enenche

#20. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Steve Largent

#22. JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

David Pietrusza

#23. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

#24. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Arleigh Burke

#25. Integrity is the noblest possession.
-Latin Proverb.

John Adair

#26. Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

Orly Wahba

#27. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.

Simon Sinek

#28. Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#29. 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

#30. House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#31. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

Roy Bennett

#32. Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.

Scott K. Edinger

#33. At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Kenneth Chenault

#34. If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good.

Anne Hill

#35. Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.

Farshad Asl

#36. Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war.

Brendon Burchard

#37. Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Brian Tracy

#38. Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

David Cottrell

#39. 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

#40. I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.

Erica Tazel

#41. Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. Lead with honesty, total integrity, compassion, patience and tolerance - toward yourself!

Bryant McGill

#43. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins

#44. 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

#45. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#46. Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love.

Farshad Asl

#47. Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.

Scott K. Edinger

#48. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

#49. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#50. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

Robert Kiyosaki

#51. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Michael Burgess

#52. Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

Michael Harris

#53. 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

#54. Integrity gives. It is not a taker.

Johnny Hunt

#55. 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

#56. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself

Tony Dovale

#57. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Mollie Marti

#58. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Herman L Glaess

#59. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Condoleezza Rice

#60. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.

John Adair

#61. Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.

Steve Maraboli

#62. Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

Bradford Winters

#63. A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

Philip Zimbardo

#64. Integrity is the ultimate foundation of leadership.

Debasish Mridha

#65. President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

Mark Udall

#66. You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Graeme Samuel

#67. Excellence reveals Integrity...
Mediocrity reveals the lack of it...
Dishonesty reveals the absence of it...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#68. Deified and demonized. Prized and pummeled. Loved and loathed. Mostly, she's still standing.

Mimi Wolverton

#69. What are we if we are not disciplined?

Rob Liano

#70. A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.

Scott K. Edinger

#71. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

James Fisher

#72. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#73. Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Orrin Woodward

#74. History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Preet Bharara

#75. Integrity is the soul of leadership! Trust is the engine of leadership!

Amine A. Ayad

#76. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#77. Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

Angie Morgan

#78. The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#79. The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.

Scott K. Edinger

#80. Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher ... but ... "

Johnny Hunt