“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
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.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit
“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
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.
William Whewell (1794–1866) English philosopher & historian of science
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Lecture 7. (1852).
Alistair Cameron Crombie (1915–1996) Australian zoologist, historian of science
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”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“Failure is success in progress”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity