Failure Of Leadership Quotes:

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

- Robert K. Greenleaf

topic: Serious, Failure Of Leadership

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

- Colin Powell

source: Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Military, Inspiring Leader

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

- Bill Gates

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivation, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Going To College

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

- Jack McDevitt

source: Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.70, Penguin

topic: People, Needs, Truth Is, Failure Of Leadership

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

- Chinua Achebe

source: Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, p.1, Heinemann

topic: Responsibility, Air, Land, Nigeria, Failure Of Leadership

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Leadership Potential, Molding

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Put First Things First, Funny Leadership

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coach

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Commitment, People, Purpose, Failure Of Leadership, Commitment In Business

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Learning, Success Failure, Overcoming Failure

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Events, Way, Lasts, Failure Of Leadership

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Success Failure, Success Is Not Measured

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

- Barack Obama

topic: Leadership, America, Effort, Fiscal Policy, Assistance

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Empowering Women, Trying Something New

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Success, Encouraging, Try Again, Journey To Success

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Inspirational, Failure, Trying, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Failure, Labels, Failure Of Leadership

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Failure In Life, My Mistakes, We All Make Mistakes, Overcoming Failure, Past Failures

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Failure, Professional Career, Maximizing

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

- Barack Obama

source: "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

topic: Children, Mean, America, Debt Ceiling, National Debt

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

- Ruth Smeeth

topic: Racism, Way, Steps, Failure Of Leadership

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

- Ed Case

topic: Country, Different, Hawaii, Failure Of Leadership

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Voice, Agency, Fishing, Sturdy, Failure Of Leadership