Top 100 Leadership Best Quotes
#1. A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
Jack Ma
#2. 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
#3. This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.
Barack Obama
#4. The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
Jack Welch
#5. Taking the time to go the extra mile when needed is the best way to develop solid leadership.
Farshad Asl
#6. We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#7. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...
Brandon Sanderson
#8. The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
Laozi
#9. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#10. I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.
Braden Pedersen
#12. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin
#14. Begin to live each day as if it was your last.
Robin Sharma
#15. Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Barbara Corcoran
#16. Leadership means you see the best in people and coach them to success. Leadership means you are the most positive person you know and an individual dedicated to building relationships.
Robin S. Sharma
#17. When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.
Phil Dourado
#18. What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.
John C. Maxwell
#19. John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.
Harvey Gantt
#20. 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
#21. I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.
Henry V. O'Neil
#22. The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.
Bill Vaughan
#24. To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.
Lee Ellis
#25. Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.
John C. Maxwell
#26. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
Ron Suskind
#27. I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#28. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.
Mark Miller
#29. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
John C. Maxwell
#30. 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
#31. A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
John J. Pershing
#32. I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome."
"To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]
"I will find them," Reyna said.
Rick Riordan
#34. When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#35. Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#36. If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.
Bill Jensen
#37. The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.
George Friedman
#39. True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Bill Owens
#40. The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.
Bill Gates
#41. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Bill Jensen
#42. Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
Debasish Mridha
#43. All that truly counts is whether you grew into all you could have been and whether you showed leadership by using your potential to positively contribute to the lives of other human beings. And it all begins within. So your absolute best can shine.
Robin S. Sharma
#44. A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Laozi
#45. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's a process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.
James M. Kouzes
#46. If you can fix something that needs to be fixed, go ahead and fix it. But real leadership is most often needed where simple solutions have already been tried and have failed. When things are hard, sometimes the best thing you can do is to drown what's wrong in a sea of what's right.
Eric Greitens
#47. Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.
Larry Holmes
#48. You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
David Cottrell
#49. But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson
#50. We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Andy Hargreaves
#51. When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
#52. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Robert Kiyosaki
#53. Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
Faye Wattleton
#54. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Laozi
#55. 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
#56. Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them ... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.
Patrick Ness
#57. The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.
John C. Maxwell
#58. If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
Brian Tracy
#59. 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
#60. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Steve Knox
#61. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#62. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.
Jonathan Darman
#63. There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our Eastern roots and combine it with the best of the Western cultures where we have leadership and offices. It makes the culture colorful as well as energetic and creative.
Cher Wang
#64. Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.
Joelle Charbonneau
#65. One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
Warren Bennis
#66. Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.
Inge Ignatia De Waard
#67. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#68. Authenticity isn't just something to say to make people applaud; it is the life you have done your best to live.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#69. I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
John Abizaid
#70. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#71. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Epictetus
#72. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Justin Trudeau
#73. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#74. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#75. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#76. 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
#77. This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#78. All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though ... These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
Noel Coward
#79. Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
John C. Maxwell
#80. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.
Mark LaMoure
#81. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
Tony Dovale
#82. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.
Henna Inam
#83. 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
#84. In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
Henry Rollins
#85. Leadership is no longer defined as "having the right answers," but as an ability to engage others to find the best solutions.
James D. Showkeir
#86. Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan
#87. 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
#88. For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.
Gerry Adams
#89. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
Archibald Marwizi
#91. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis
#92. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#93. Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.
David Ignatius
#94. You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.
Rich Lesser
#96. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#97. I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
Tom Izzo
#98. Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.
Jeff Henderson
#99. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#100. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
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