Leadership Integrity Quotes

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

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

"Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Douglas MacArthur

Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

"This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Warren Buffett

Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Albert Einstein

Trust, Leadership, Truth

"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Education, Honesty, Integrity

'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Henry Kravis

Money, Integrity, World

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Business, Character

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Motivational, Leadership, Art

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max De Pree

Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Laozi

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivational, Truth, Honesty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Witter Bynner

Leadership, People, Boss

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