The New York Times has a fun round-up of commencement addresses, speeches by the great and the good to the graduating classes of US universities. Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, used a line from Churchill in his which I hadn't heard before and is well worth committing to memory:
What is the secret of all success? Winston Churchill, he said it was moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
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Disraeli's Ghost
June 16th, 2008 7:41pm Report this commentThe actual quote is: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
Water
June 17th, 2008 8:53am Report this commentA good quote.
Water
June 17th, 2008 8:54am Report this commentThis said it is by no means the best.
Familiar Clown
June 17th, 2008 1:30pm Report this commentWater -
How about this one?
"There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success."
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