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Quotes About Failure

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
~ Plutarch
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
~ Walter Cronkite
Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.
~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D
So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.
~ Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
~ Henry Petroski
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
~ Warren G. Bennis
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy
~ Sun Tzu
Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.
~ John C. Maxwell
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
~ Warren G. Bennis
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
~ Bill Veeck
A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
~ Jack Ma
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
You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!
~ Jeffry A Timmons
People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
~ Seth Godin
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.
~ Robert Zuppke
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
~ Chinua Achebe
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
~ Ed Case
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
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.
~ Bradford Winters
It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.
~ Owen Jones
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o
~ John F. Kennedy