I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Walt Whitman · Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun (1865), sec. 1

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Walt Whitman · Me Imperturbe (1860)

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman · I Sing the Body Electric (1855), sec. 8

More Failure Quotes

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!

Fiorello La Guardia

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats · Endymion (1818), preface

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Often credited to Winston Churchill · Churchill never said it; Quote Investigator traces the idea to a 1938 Budweiser beer advertisement ("success was never final and failure never fatal. It was courage that counted") and finds the Churchill credit only from the 1960s.

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“I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”

“O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.”

“If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.”

“When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”