“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”
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Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist
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“To the eye of failure success is an accident.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 373
“At that age you invent extravagant compensations for bruises to your dignity.”
Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean
Part 3, Chapter 3 (p. 118)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“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. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. <br class="br">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
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl