Top 100 The Best Leadership Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.
Kevin Andrews
#3. Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Barbara Corcoran
#4. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#5. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#6. The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.
Jonah Lehrer
#7. We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
Wilson Greatbatch
#8. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Epictetus
#9. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#10. Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
Sparky Anderson
#11. 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
#12. When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
#13. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#14. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#15. 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
#16. We each must select the best hardships for our best future.
Bill Jensen
#17. If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
Brian Tracy
#18. One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
Kate Klise
#19. 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
#20. Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
Diana Whitney
#21. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B.C. Forbes
#22. The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.
John C. Maxwell
#23. 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
#24. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.
Werner Erhard
#25. 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
#26. Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
Faye Wattleton
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#30. The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
Bill Hybels
#31. I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.
Avery Johnson
#32. 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
#33. I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
Robin S. Sharma
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.
Bill Jensen
#37. 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
#38. When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.
Mark Miller
#39. Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
Jane Ripley
#40. I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.
Robin S. Sharma
#41. 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
#42. Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
John C. Maxwell
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.
Steve Jobs
#47. Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.
James MacDonald
#48. We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions.
Jeff Henderson
#49. 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
#50. The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
Rush Limbaugh
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J.K. Rowling
#56. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.
John C. Maxwell
#57. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#58. The best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
Tony Hsieh
#59. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin
#60. Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.
John C. Maxwell
#61. I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
Angela Ahrendts
#62. The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
Tony Blair
#64. The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
John Maxwell
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.
Carlos Wallace
#68. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#69. The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
Laozi
#70. The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing - your call to adventure - is your best tool in that battle.
Bill Jensen
#71. The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run.
Johnny Hunt
#72. 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
#73. You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.
Fiona Wood
#74. Taking the time to go the extra mile when needed is the best way to develop solid leadership.
Farshad Asl
#75. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.
Geraldine Brooks
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#80. We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Andy Hargreaves
#81. Your determination and energy will be proportionate to your goal. Therefore, set a high goal for yourself and do not settle for anything less than the very best. The best is exactly what you will get if you accept no less.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#82. In my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
Joe Torre
#83. You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
David Cottrell
#84. He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.
Sinclair Lewis
#85. First we become the best, then we'll become first.
Lou Holtz
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#93. 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
#94. If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.
Bill Jensen
#95. 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
#96. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
Geraldine Brooks
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. The most inspiring leaders are those who ... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.
Carmine Gallo
