Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

I personally like Adams ... I respect him because of his personal and official integrity.

I just want to lead by example.

I don't choose projects according to the idea of being a role model. To be considered as one is definitely an honor.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

Leadership is being the best example you can be for your teammates. The guy that everybody can depend on on a nightly basis.

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, people want leaders who they respect and who they believe in and who can get things done.

I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

Have you ever heard of a club captain who's a bad egg? Me neither.

I really feel that leading by example is the best way for people to see who you are and let them connect with you.

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.

My friends… feel there are not that many people they can really look up to. They feel people are so hypocritical and fake… But I do have some people I respect, a great number of people, and I'm sure my friends have.

Ours is the responsibility to keep our light bright for others to see and follow.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

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