Failure, Leadership, Anxiety

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
~ Chinese Proverb

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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.
~Colin Powell

Leaders, Cleanliness

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the
language of the visionary and the idealist.
~ Eric Hoffer

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted,
the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~ Colin Powell

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
~ P. J. O'Rourke