
“Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
Source: Dreadfully Ever After
“Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
The Elements of Moral Philosophy (1999), p. 183
“The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
Generation A (2009)
Context: Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media might do us all such tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much as the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Syracuse University commencement address, May 8 1994 [Source of the book's title]
“If Lincoln had been a failure, he would have lived a longer life.”
James M. McPherson. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008) "Epilogue"
2000s
from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s