Winston Churchill once said, “The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”
On July 17, 2008, Al Gore challenged the United States to do the right thing in the same spirit that John F. Kennedy challenge us to go to the moon:
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Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy
Today is the day that 40 years ago Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. I don’t like to refer to these circumstances as anniversaries, because an anniversary is a good occasion like in marriage. The assassination of a leader is a dark circumstance in our nation’s history.
Bobby Kennedy, as he was known, was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and served as US Attorney General during his brother’s administration. From 1965 until his assassination, was a US Senator from New York. In the early morning hours of June 5th, 1968, he won the California Democrat Primary and after giving his speech he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Bobby Kennedy stood for issues of civil rights, racial and economic justice, against the Vietnam War, and supporting foreign policy of non-aggression.
Quote about failure from Bobby Kennedy:
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Blogging about failure on a website about leadership may strike some as odd, but I find it important for leaders to understand the role that failure plays in developing leadership potential.
Below are articles that I have written about failure:
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