Top 100 Better Leader Quotes
#1. The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.
Andrew S. Grove
#2. Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
John C. Maxwell
#3. The path to being a better leader is paved with the asphalt of the habits we develop.
Brad Lomenick
#4. Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.
John C. Maxwell
#5. Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#6. I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.
Scott Weiss
#8. There is no better leader in collegiate athletics than Tom Brady.
Lloyd Carr
#9. I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
Rick Scott
#10. USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#11. Want to be a better leader? Meditate in the morning and prepare yourself for the day ahead.
Joe Sacco
#12. Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.
Anne F. Beiler
#13. Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.
Bryant McGill
#14. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
Barack Obama
#15. You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.
Gemma Malley
#17. If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.
Bruce Boxleitner
#18. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#19. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#20. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
Warren G. Bennis
#21. My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
#22. Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success
Ray Bergman
#23. There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.
James Tracy
#24. 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
#25. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#26. Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
Jack Welch
#27. It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent). (Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him)
Anonymous
#28. We practice mastering ourselves in the moment so that we can better open ourselves to being a servant leader and to harness our emotions and choose what to do with our reactions.
Lyssa Adkins
#29. A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
Warren G. Bennis
#30. It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.
Paul Kagame
#31. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.
Kurt Madden
#32. People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission
the value of people and how to truly appreciate them,
David Neeleman
#33. To be a successful team leader, one has to stay back after the din and clutter of a working day to emerge better-equipped and ready to face a new day.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#34. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman
#35. I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. Seventh Generation's work with Carol Sanford made me a better values-based leader.
Jeffrey Hollender
#37. We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.
Sam Hamill
#38. A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
Jack Welch
#39. A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#40. A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
George Washington
#41. Everyone wins when a leader gets better
Bill Hybels
#42. It is not uncommon for a leader to win a debate - or even an election - who is intellectually inferior to his opponent but is better able to incite the emotions of the masses.
Noah Lukeman
#43. As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
Najib Razak
#44. Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Indeed, the world is a better place because there was such a leader as President Gordon B. Hinckley.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#46. Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
Andrew Whitworth
#47. 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
#48. I must learn better than them, not simply beat them. That is how I will help Reds. I am a boy. I am foolish. But if I learn to become a leader, I can be more than an agent of the Sons of Ares. I can give my people a future. That is what Eo wanted. Deep
Pierce Brown
#49. A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
J.R. Rim
#50. I can't be the kind of leader you want me to," he says. "I will never, ever be the kind of leader you want me to be. And I will be better because of it.
Beth Revis
#51. Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.
Jim George
#52. You can't give what you don't have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
Stephen Covey
#54. Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.
Andrea Leadsom
#55. Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder ... would we be better off with cowardice?
Joshua Fernandez
#56. Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.
Ivanka Trump
#57. If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.
Bernard Cornwell
#58. We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.
Mike Bickle
#59. To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.
Harriet Rubin
#60. Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.
Walter Mosley
#61. I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.
Mark Martin
#62. Leaders make things better and that requires change.
Andy Stanley
#63. Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
Jose Maria Aznar
#64. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#65. An efficient leader may, through his knowledge of his job and the magnetism of his personality, greatly increase the efficiency of others, and induce them to render more service and better service than they could render without his aid.
Napoleon Hill
#66. It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
Johnny Damon
#67. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#68. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
A.J. Darkholme
#69. Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
Alan Keyes
#70. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#71. They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
T.E. Lawrence
#72. 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
#73. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
Rick Welts
#74. If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
Bill Hybels
#75. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
Richard Branson
#76. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.
Donna Brazile
#77. A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
Simon Sinek
#78. If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
Bill Hybels
#79. You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#80. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.
Thomas Sowell
#84. There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.
Trey Burke
#85. It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.
Anonymous
#86. There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity ... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
Marcus Buckingham
#87. While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.
Robin Sharma
#88. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.
Tony Dungy
#90. Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.
John C. Maxwell
#91. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
Russell Simmons
#92. People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.
David D. Burns
#93. Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.
David Small
#94. I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.
Celine
#95. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#99. Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.
Jake M. Johnson
