Frances Hesselbein Quotes

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Our ideals are our better selves.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.