Top 86 Failure In Leadership Quotes
#1. Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war.
Brendon Burchard
#2. Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.
Bradford Winters
#3. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#4. Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
Jack Ma
#6. The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.
Myles Munroe
#7. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.
Orrin Woodward
#10. Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
Francis Chan
#11. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.
Archibald Marwizi
#12. The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.
Paul C. Nagel
#13. People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
Seth Godin
#14. When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Robert Townsend
#15. 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
#16. The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B.C. Forbes
#17. Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed; always move forward.
Noel DeJesus
#18. Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
Noel DeJesus
#19. Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.
Lolly Daskal
#20. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.
Mike Krzyzewski
#21. Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.
Fred Lowe Soper
#22. What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.
Cameron C. Taylor
#23. The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
Ed Case
#24. His failure to adapt to new techniques, to pander (his own word), probably made his supporters love him all the more, and probably also narrowed his political base.
David Halberstam
#25. Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.
Harriet Harman
#26. The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
Tom DeMarco
#29. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.
Lolly Daskal
#30. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
#31. It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Andy Hargreaves
#32. There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
Christopher Babson
#33. I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.
Margaret Cho
#35. The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.
Noel DeJesus
#36. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#37. Mindful leaders know how to repeat success patterns and overcome failure patterns.
Amit Ray
#38. 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
#39. The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.
Karen Kimsey-House
#41. Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
Kevin Kelly
#42. The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.
Archibald Marwizi
#43. Great leadership produces great success.
Weak leadership produces failure.
Ellen J. Barrier
#44. The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
Wayde Goodall
#45. Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.
Noel DeJesus
#46. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell
#47. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Benjamin E. Mays
#48. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.
Matt Mickiewicz
#49. 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
#50. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
Douglas MacArthur
#51. Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#52. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#53. Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
Peter Senge
#54. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#55. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#56. Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.
Henry Kimsey-House
#57. You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
John C. Maxwell
#58. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#60. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
#61. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#62. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
William Bridges
#63. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#64. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!
Noel DeJesus
#65. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Under [Tim] Cook, Apple has a new product line with the Apple Watch, but it hasn't generated the kind of excitement that the iPod, iPhone or iPad did. Still, Cook can't be called a failure. Under his leadership, the company released a larger version of the iPhone to record sales.
Laura Sydell
#67. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.
Henry Kimsey-House
#68. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
Moutasem Algharati
#69. No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
Babara Tuchman
#70. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#71. Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed all on our behalf.
Mark W. Boyer
#72. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.
Bob Anderson
#73. Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.
Lolly Daskal
#74. In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
Andy Hargreaves
#75. Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#76. Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.
Orrin Woodward
#77. There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
Cathy Rigby
#78. Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.
Noel DeJesus
#79. Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.
Archibald Marwizi
#80. Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#81. 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
#82. Trust is equal parts character and competence ... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen Covey
#83. If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you'll be successful. Once you start making a 'Plan B', you distract from 'Plan A', and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.
A.J. Darkholme
#84. The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
#85. The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
Jack McDevitt
#86. Predestined to a destiny that only Christ can fulfill, all other leadership assures failure.
Jonah Books
