Enhancing your Problem solving skill is critical to your success as a leader or Manager . It can help you progress more quickly and boost your career .

It will enhance your value and establish trust in your leadership because problem solving include a range of other competencies such as logic, creativity, resilience, imagination, lateral thinking and determination.

Problem solvers are able to think of new ideas, better ways of doing things, make it easier for people to understand things or help save customers time and money.

The sooner you realise that life can not be lived without encountering a few problems as evidenced by these problem solving quotes the better .

Some of these problems might be small, some might be catastrophic, and others will fall in between.

The size and scope of the problem really doesn’t matter.

What does matter, as you will see in these problem solving quotes, is your attitude and response to the problem.

How you view problems in general is a big part of the way you solve problems.

Do you think of them as something that is happening to you or an opportunity to learn something new?

Your understanding of the actual problem will also impact the way you solve it.

Many of these problem solving quotes stress that the solution will come from studying the problem itself.

To inspire and motivate you to enhance your Problem solving skill I have created this post on Problem solving quotes from the best minds in the world.

Read them for more inspiration and motivation .

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39 INSPIRING QUOTES ON PROBLEM SOLVING FOR NEW MANAGERS

1.“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

Eckhart Tolle

2.“Wrong way to think about it. Don’t try to figure it out all at once.”

Jed Ruben Feld, The Interpretation of Murder

3.“Sometimes, the best way of solving a problem is by letting it unsolved.”

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

4.“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem”

Captain Jack Sparrow

5.“It is courage which can find the solution to every problem.”

Amit Kalantri

6.“Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective.”

Katherine Russell

7.“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”

George Pólya

8.“Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.”

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

9.“You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.”

Michael J. Gelb

10“Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.”

Walter O’ Brien

11.“I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.”

Jeffrey Veen

12 .“ A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

Duke Ellington

13.“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

Albert Einstein\

14.“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”

John Dewey

15.“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”

C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

16“If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.”

Abraham Maslow

17.“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”

John Dewey

18.“I’m not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.”

Hanneli Mustaparta

19“There are only two ways to solve a problem: stop dwelling, and start doing.”

Emily Uraih

20.“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

Albert Einstein

21.“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.”

M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

22.“The best way to find a solution to a problem is to first understand it.”

Stephen Covey

23.“The best way to solve a problem is to remove its cause.”

John Dryden

24.“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

Albert Einstein

25.“The only way to solve a problem is to go through it, not around it.”

Richard Branson

26.“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

Robert H. Schuller

27.“Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”

M. Scott Peck

28.“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.”

Hilary Mantel

29.“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”

Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

30.“The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.”

Terence McKenna

31.“The important thing about a problem is not the solution, but the strength we gain in finding a solution.”

Seneca

32.“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

33.“There is always a solution to every challenging situation.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

34.“A step at a time… One problem at a time—just figure out this one problem.”

Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk To Water

35. Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.”

Simon Sinek. Leaders Eat Last

36.“Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.”

Zig Ziglar

37. “We just have to keep going until we find out what’s wrong or find out why we don’t know what’s wrong.”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

38.“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

39.“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”

Norman Vincent Peale

I hope you have found the quotes very inspiring .Which quotes have appealed the most to you ? Share your thoughts .