
“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
“Game III,” p. 98
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
“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
“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
This has sometimes been paraphrased: "My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent".
1870s, Eighth State of the Union Address (1876)
Context: I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Lecture 7. (1852).
A. C. Crombie, 1963. as cited in: Robert Maxwell Young. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, 1970. p. 101.
“The key to success is failure”
“Failure is success in progress”