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Failure And Leadership Quotes About Learning From Mistakes

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

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

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

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

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Taking Responsibility

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Resilience

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.
Zig Ziglar

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Perseverance

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Humility

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino

The greatest leaders are not necessarily the ones who do the greatest things. They are the ones that inspire others to do great things.
Ronald Reagan

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Courage

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling

Leadership is not about being fearless, it's about being courageous and taking action despite your fears.
Unknown

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

I have not failed. I've just learned 10,000 ways that won't work.
Benjamin Franklin

I have not failed. I've just found ways that won't work.
Maya Angelou

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Risk-Taking

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Ken Robinson

It's not about how hard you can hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Rocky Balboa

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Adaptability

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
John Wooden

Adaptability is the key to survival in any situation.
Jessica Brody

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Adaptability is not an act of compromise, rather a tool of survival.
Unknown

Adaptability is not a matter of changing oneself to fit the environment, but rather of changing the environment to suit oneself.
Unknown

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Accountability

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
Antos Parrish

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Self-Awareness

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Teamwork

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

The strength of a team is not in the individual abilities of its members, but in their ability to work together as a team.
Unknown

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Growth Mindset

Failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

The greatest leaders have an uncanny ability to see things from the perspective of others.
Michael Hyatt

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Leadership is not just about giving energy... it's about unleashing other people's energy.
Paul Polman

Empathy is the key to great leadership.
Bill McDermott

The best leaders have a high degree of emotional intelligence. It's not just about their own ego and their own needs.
Anne Mulcahy

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Cory Booker

Failure And Leadership Quotes About Leading By Example

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur

Leadership is not about being the best. It's about making everyone else better.
Unknown

The greatest leaders are those who empower others.
Unknown

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

Leadership is not about being in control. It's about creating a culture of accountability and empowering others.
Unknown

Leadership is not about being perfect. It's about admitting your mistakes, learning from them, and moving forward.
John Wooden

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