Virtuous Leadership Quotes

“El liderazgo no es en modo alguno un ejercicio individual: los verdaderos líderes son líderes de líderes.”
― Alexandre Havard, Liderazgo virtuoso (Palabra hoy)

“«Las almas grandes tienen muy en cuenta las cosas pequeñas»[30], observó Escrivá.”
― Alexandre Havard, Liderazgo virtuoso (Palabra hoy)

“la legalización del aborto no era simplemente un ataque frontal a la ley moral natural, sino también una expresión odiosa de desprecio por la ciencia.”
― Alexandre Havard, Liderazgo virtuoso (Palabra hoy)

“The sine qua non of improvement is the emotionally mature and intelligent desire to overcome oneself and to help others do likewise. This desire stems from a deep awareness of the exalted vocation of man. “Leadership,” says Drucker, “is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond its normal limitations.”[33] This challenge applies both to the leader, and, through the leader, to the led. Leadership indeed is never an individualistic exercise. True leaders are always leaders of leaders.”
― Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence

“Envy is not the ambition to possess as much as my neighbor possesses or to be as gifted as he is. Such an ambition can be a healthy thing and usually indicates an inclination to leadership. Envy is something else. It involves bitterness and resentment, possibly combined with a desire to bring down one’s neighbor. It can easily become a toxic brew engendering hatred. Often, it has its roots in an inferiority complex.”
― Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence

“Leaders, no matter what their religious or philosophical convictions are, feel the promptings of the natural moral law, compelling them to do good and avoid evil. Leaders are, of course, as subject to sinful inclinations as anyone else. But they know that if they habitually practice virtue, they will strengthen their character and overcome their flaws.”
― Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence

“The humble man sees himself as he really is. He acknowledges his weaknesses and shortcomings, but also his strengths and abilities. “To despise the gifts that God has given is not due to humility, but to ingratitude,” writes Thomas Aquinas.”
― Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence

“Communism claimed to represent the working class, but banned trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike. Walesa chose to attach the real meaning to these concepts. He did not so much strike a blow against Communism as a blow for truth, a blow Communism did not survive.”
― Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence