“In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.”
In Defense of Elitism
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)
“In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.”
In Defense of Elitism
“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”
Source: Firstborn
“Modest successes are better known as failures.”
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed.): Art. "Frederic Raphael", p. 363
“If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 44
“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
“Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure.”
A Testament (1957)
“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