James E. Faust Quotes

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

A good leader must be fair.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches... build a trust.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

The essence of leadership is responding to human need.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.