Quotes about Character
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
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
- Stephen Covey
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
- John Maxwell
There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
- John Maxwell
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
- Laurence Sterne
Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
- Simon Sinek
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.
- Winston Churchill
Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.
- John Maxwell
A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.
- John Maxwell
If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.
- Lao Tzu
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
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln