“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
George E. Woodberry (1855–1930) American poet and literary critic
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
Variant: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Source: Tender Is the Night
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“Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Law of Success: The 21st-Century Edition
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2008, Speech, 14 January 2008
Context: I gave a reply: that my election speeches are available with the election commission. My statements are available in the newspapers. If you will find out a single statement that you can brand as communal, I will declare myself defeated. No one dared to come forward.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
[“Loving Your Enemies,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, King, Jr., Martin Luther, 1957-11-17, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/loving-your-enemies-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church, http://www.webcitation.org/6x5ROMlxu, 2018-02-08]
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
“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.
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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/
“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”
Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II
Quoted in "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45" - by John Nichol, Tony Rennell - History - 2006.
“Failure alone remains as the one single accomplishable experience;”
Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)