Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
About this quote
- Attributed to
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Published in
- Whispering Sages: From Their Mouths To Your Ears
- Attribution status
- ! Commonly misattributed
Variant of Oliver Goldsmith's line in The Citizen of the World (1760); often credited to Confucius or Emerson.
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