Top 52 Quotes About Failure Of Leadership
#1. 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
#2. The truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
Jack McDevitt
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
Ed Case
#7. 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
#8. The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
Wayde Goodall
#9. 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
#10. Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. 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
#12. Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
Francis Chan
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
Seth Godin
#16. 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
#17. Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed; always move forward.
Noel DeJesus
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#21. The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.
Noel DeJesus
#22. 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
#23. It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Andy Hargreaves
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Arleigh Burke
#27. The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#29. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
Noel DeJesus
#30. The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
#31. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!
Noel DeJesus
#32. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#33. 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
#34. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
Douglas MacArthur
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.
Henry Kimsey-House
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.
Archibald Marwizi
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#49. No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
Babara Tuchman
#50. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.
Moutasem Algharati
#51. By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.
T.F. Hodge
#52. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.
Henry Kimsey-House
