T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The best knowledge is to be kind.”
“The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.”
“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“The best laid carpet will always hide the best laid traps.”
“The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.”
Source: Half A Shadow
“The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.”
“The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.”
“The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
(To A Mouse)”
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”
“The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.”
“The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.”
“The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.”
“The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.”
“The best lawyers are those who can win without arguing”
“The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.”
“The best leader cannot provide the necessary constant renewal if he or she lacks entrepreneurial skills.”
“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.”
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“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.”
“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?”
“The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.”
“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.”
“The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.”
“The best leaders are the hungriest learners.”
“The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.”
“The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.”
“The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
Next comes the one who is feared.
The worst one is the leader that is despised ...
The best leaders value their words, and use them sparingly.
When they have accomplished their task,
the people say, "Amazing!
We did it, all by ourselves!”
“The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.”
“The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.”
“The best leaders blend courage with compassion.”
“The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.”
“The best leaders donāt know just one style of leadershipātheyāre skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.”
Source: HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)
“The best leaders know that they are standing on the shoulders of others who have come before them.”
“The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.”
“The best leaders listen. In fact, listening is the most powerful statement a leader can make.”
Source: Lessons for a Billionaire
“The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist.
They turn to each other and say 'We did it ourselves.”
“The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.”
“The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.”
“the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.”
“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
“The best leadership teams have purpose, they are aligned on their strategic objectives, they are a high performing team and have change leadership skills to navigate 4IR”
“The best leaks always take place in the urinal.”
“The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.”
Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
“The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.”
“The best learning I had came from teaching.”
Source: Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom
“The best learning is achieved through experience, not by instruction. Though instruction is sometimes necessary and helpful, it is often best to foster conditions and allow conditions whereby students learn through experience.”
Source: Principles of a Poinciana School
“The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.”
“The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.”
“The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy