John Selden Quotes

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

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

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

We can't allow our leaders to play the old 'do as I say, not as I do' game.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

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.

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.