“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.”
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.”
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
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 42
“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”
“Failure to follow this advice, he said, might lead our clan to disappear.”
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.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”
“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)
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