Quotes About Leadership

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

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.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

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.

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

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.