“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/
“I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.”
Jackie Speier (1950) American politician
San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1322202~After_years_in_public_service__Speier_ready_for_seat_in_D_C_.html
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 42
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist
Variant: You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
“With the American failure came world failure.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)