Inspirational quotes and sayings about Leadership

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
- Theodore Hesburgh

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

When the best leader's work is done, the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
- Adolf Hitler

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie