Top 100 Best Leader Quotes
#1. The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
J. Richard Clarke
#2. I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.
George Galloway
#3. Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.
Johann Gottfried Seume
#4. There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
Jane Harman
#5. Witches didn't have leaders, of course, but everyone knew that Granny Weatherwax had been the best leader they didn't have, so now someone else would need to step forward to generally steer the witches.
Terry Pratchett
#6. The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
Mary Parker Follett
#7. To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tzu
#8. The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.
Tony Dungy
#9. I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I'm doing something or on a golf course, work has stopped. I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
Mike Duke
#10. Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
Mary Parker Follett
#11. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#12. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#13. There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
Derek Sivers
#14. The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
Keith Emerson
#15. I believe that women make some of the best leaders.
Amy Klobuchar
#16. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#17. A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg
#18. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.
Bo Schembechler
#19. Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
Teresa Hampton
#20. When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. - WOODROW WILSON
Robert A. Caro
#21. Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.
LeBron James
#22. Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.
Robert Noyce
#23. What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
#24. People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
Bill Hybels
#25. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#26. As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
K.F. Breene
#27. Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.
Albert Einstein
#28. To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
Andy Stanley
#29. North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
Mel Watt
#30. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.
John Stahl-Wert
#31. The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.
John C. Maxwell
#32. The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Nancy Pearcey
#33. When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Jack Welch
#34. The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership - they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
Daniel Goleman
#35. To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.
John J. Pershing
#36. I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
Muhammad Iqbal
#37. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership, and the best type of leader, is a servant leader. For me, my life as a kingmaker includes serving
Cary Hokama
#38. For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
Jeff Bezos
#41. The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.
Bill Courtney
#42. The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
Robin Sharma
#43. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
Robin Sharma
#44. Loyalty - deep, intense, devoted loyalty - to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.
Bill Jensen
#45. We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.
Charles Koch
#46. Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Simon Sinek
#47. A real leader doesn't choose to lead only the deserving. He will, instead, inspire his people into becoming the best that they are capable of.
Amish Tripathi
#48. On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.
Tom DeMarco
#49. Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best
John C. Maxwell
#50. Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.
Kevin Eikenberry
#51. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.
Stephen M.R. Covey
#52. what makes you a leader is the will to lead, not the knowledge how to do it best. You just have to be bright enough to listen to those who do know, and make the decisions that they don't want to be responsible for. That's how a team works.
Adrienne Lecter
#53. One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
Simon Sinek
#54. Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.
Amit Ray
#55. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
Mike Krzyzewski
#56. We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.
Ralph Peters
#57. I'm a patriot with every fiber of my being. A patriot does what is best for his country, not what is best for its leader.
James Patterson
#58. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#59. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
Henna Inam
#60. The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?
Robert K. Greenleaf
#61. The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.
Simon Sinek
#62. Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
Travis Bradberry
#63. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.
Richard Branson
#65. Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
Richard Branson
#66. When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.
Gary Rohrmayer
#67. It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Simon Sinek
#68. The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert
Walter Isaacson
#69. The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.
Gustave Le Bon
#70. Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.
Ashley Jeffery
#71. The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.
Robin Sharma
#72. The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
Tom Peters
#73. Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.
Jim Caviezel
#74. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#75. Of the best things that happened to me at that time, believe it or not, was joining the Boy Scouts. Its leader, Baden-Powell, a genuinely nice man who was well tuned in to what small boys liked doing, did believe that without the scouts the empire would collapse. This
Keith Richards
#76. As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the organization I command do and be? And second, how can I best command to achieve that?
Stanley McChrystal
#77. The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
John C. Maxwell
#78. When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don't give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.
John C. Maxwell
#79. Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
Graydon Carter
#80. As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.
Najib Razak
#81. Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
Umair Haque
#82. Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.
Richard Condon
#83. The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.
John C. Maxwell
#84. Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
Robin Sharma
#85. The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Peter Koestenbaum
#86. [Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.
William J. Clinton
#87. The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
Laozi
#88. I've had the best history teachers of the world,
you know.
Now, I am the best.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 28, 2016
Petra Hermans
#89. Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.
John Stahl-Wert
#90. The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
Eugene Habecker
#91. John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.
Pete Seeger
#92. The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning
not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#93. Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.
Frederick Schiller Faust
#94. A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe DiMaggio
#95. The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Frances Hesselbein
#96. The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
Ed Bearss
#97. Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
#98. Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.
James C. Collins
#99. Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.
Robert Scoble
#100. The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.
David Ogilvy
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