Top 100 Quotes About The Best Leaders
#1. 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
#2. I believe that women make some of the best leaders.
Amy Klobuchar
#3. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#4. The best leaders make mistakes and then learn from them. The best leaders never make the same mistakes again. The only way you can learn is if you understand the mistakes that were made.
Joelle Charbonneau
#5. The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.
Mark Miller
#6. The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.
Mark Miller
#7. As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
K.F. Breene
#8. The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.
John C. Maxwell
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. In times of tumult and transition the best leaders know when it is time to stop, unlearn, and relearn.
Liz Wiseman
#12. Those that don't follow the norm usually make the best leaders,
K.F. Breene
#13. The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
Ben Morton
#14. The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.
Robin Sharma
#15. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. Maxwell
#16. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
Robin Sharma
#17. 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
#18. The best leaders are gentle. In our culture, we have been misled to believe that the tougher we are, the more respect we will gain, but that is simply not true. What we gain by being tough is fear, and fear is not respect. Respect is gained by giving it away.
Rebecca Eanes
#19. 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
#20. Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu
#21. 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
#22. The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.
Shawn Achor
#23. Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Tom Peters
#27. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.
John C. Maxwell
#28. The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
Tom Peters
#29. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#30. The best leaders devote almost all of their energy to inspiring and enabling others.
Brad Lomenick
#31. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
#32. Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
Robin Sharma
#33. The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Peter Koestenbaum
#34. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#35. The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
Ed Bearss
#36. 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
#37. You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.
Orrin Woodward
#38. Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.
Richard Branson
#39. Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.
Craig Groeschel
#40. 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
#41. The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.
Tony Dungy
#42. The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
Bob Rae
#43. The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.
Robin Sharma
#44. the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.
Alex Ferguson
#45. The best leaders blend courage with compassion.
Robin Sharma
#47. You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade
Jeff Garvin
#48. 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
#49. I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
Chirlane McCray
#50. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
#51. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#52. Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
#53. The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#54. Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas Jefferson
#55. Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
Michael Beschloss
#56. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques
#57. Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan
#58. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#59. Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
Ellen Sauerbrey
#60. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#62. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#63. All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#64. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden
#65. Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.
Mao Zedong
#66. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
Simon Sinek
#67. Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
Warren Buffett
#68. We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop
Peter Drucker
#69. Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
Bertrand Russell
#70. You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.
Simon Sinek
#71. We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
William S. Burroughs
#72. I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.
Martin McGuinness
#73. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#74. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
Ayn Rand
#75. Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
Beau Willimon
#76. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Israelmore Ayivor
#77. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Ogwo David Emenike
#78. The strife will only get worse. Chaos feeds on weak leaders, divided loyalties. That
Rick Riordan
#79. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.
Matt Chandler
#80. Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.
Donald Trump
#81. Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
Norman Geisler
#82. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.
Harold Klemp
#83. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#84. I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle
#85. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.
Marcus Garvey
#86. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.
George H. W. Bush
#87. All over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches,
Salman Rushdie
#88. ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
Don Nickles
#89. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan
#90. I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.
Rush Limbaugh
#91. Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.
Michael Enzi
#92. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.
John Adair
#93. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
Nelson Mandela
#94. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
Jim Rohn
#95. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#96. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Mark Miller
#97. Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
Jim George
#98. Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
Simon Sinek
#99. Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right
Simon Sinek
#100. The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
Peter Morgan
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