Leadership Character Quotes

Leadership Character Quote of the day

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

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

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Leadership is character in action.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

Character is contagious.

Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

A leader is not authenticated by title or position, but by character and influence, most important by leading among the pack and not in front.

In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

To create oneself as a Leader the foundation of Integrity must be laid, built with character and aspirations of greatness

Perfecting your character isn’t a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.