“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
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Variant: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.”
Jackie Speier (1950) American politician
San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1322202~After_years_in_public_service__Speier_ready_for_seat_in_D_C_.html
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 42
“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
“Failure to follow this advice, he said, might lead our clan to disappear.”
Chulalongkorn (1853–1910) King of Siam
Letter to his son http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/with-king-in-declining-health-future-of-monarchy-in-thailand-is-uncertain.html
“With the American failure came world failure.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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“When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”
George Will (1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
“Opinion: Biden’s Afghanistan policy shows the world a wobbly, impulsive U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/bidens-afghanistan-policy-shows-world-wobbly-impulsive-us/ The Washington Post, (Aug. 27, 2021) <br class="br">2021s