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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

Origin

Origin is uncertain; the first known close matches appear in the early 1950s. Has been misattributed to Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.

Citations

• Someone has said, "Success is advancing from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm".
  • "Lenten Readings". The Morning Herald (Gloversville and Johnstown, NY): p. 25. 1953-03-13. 
  • "Fellowship of Prayer". The Leader-Republican (Gloversville and Johnstown, NY): p. 6. 1953-03-13. 
• Success has been defined as the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
  • Powers, David Guy (1953). How To Say A Few Words. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday. p. 109. OCLC 1490721. 
• "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." (Anonymous)
  • Shook, Robert L.; Herbert M. Shook, Ron Bingaman (1975). The Complete Professional Salesman. New York, NY: Barnes and Noble. p. 38. 
• Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying, "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm"
  • Douglass, Stephen B.; Lee Roddy (1983). Making the most of your mind. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers. p. 50. ISBN 0866051090. 
• "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" (Winston Churchill)
  • Flick, Bill (1986-05-16). "Don't quote me, just quote everyone else". The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL): p. 6. 

Variants

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
• Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.