Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

Men say that I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.

A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.

I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.