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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
Sep 29, 2025
You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
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.
... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
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.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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.
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.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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