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This line captures the idea that persistence is not about avoiding failure but about refusing to let failure extinguish your drive. The image of walking from one failure to the next is deliberately unglamorous: it acknowledges that setbacks keep coming. What separates those who eventually succeed, the quote suggests, is simply that they never stop moving forward with genuine energy and belief.
This saying is widely attributed to Winston Churchill, though researchers have not been able to pin it to a verified speech, letter, or documented source. It circulates as a Churchill quotation in popular culture, but caution is warranted about treating it as a confirmed original statement. Regardless of its precise origin, it fits comfortably within a long tradition of aphorisms about perseverance, and its plain, almost wry phrasing has helped it endure as a motivational touchstone across many decades.
Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and is remembered as one of the most consequential political leaders of the twentieth century. He was also a prolific writer and orator, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. His personal history included significant political setbacks before his rise to wartime leadership, which may be one reason resilience-themed quotations have attached themselves so naturally to his name over the years.
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan · Nike commercial, 1997
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison · widely attributed
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill · widely attributed
“It is a great thing to achieve your dreams, but to keep being successful is more difficult than you might imagine.”
Lionel Messi
“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.”
Lionel Messi
“My family always supported me and helped me to get where I am today.”
Lionel Messi
“I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct.”
Lionel Messi
“Something I learned over the years: you have to listen to the people who know.”
Lionel Messi
“I have fun like a child in the street. When this stops happening, it will be time to leave football.”
Lionel Messi
“When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, to win all the competitions.”
Lionel Messi
“The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.”
Lionel Messi
“I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world.”
Lionel Messi
