All DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Quotes about “Character”

“The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”
“No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.”
“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
“Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.”
“If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.”
“I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.”
“We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.”
“As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.”

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