Clarence Day Quotes

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

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.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

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

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

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.