
“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
From "Self-Portrait" (1972)
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit
“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 159
1961, Inaugural Address
Context: In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
“The key to success is failure”
“Failure is success in progress”