“Failure is just a few seconds away from success.”

— John Flanagan

Source: The Battle for Skandia

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Irish-American hammer thrower 1873–1938

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“Failure is just success rounded down.”

Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer

Comic dialogue http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=955

“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Source: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success

“Failure is success if we learn from it. ”

Малькольм Форбс

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Mrs Patrick Campbell (1895–1940) British stage actress

No definite source has been found for this statement; though most often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, and sometimes to Abraham Lincoln, it has only rarely been attributed to Campbell.
Disputed