Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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This maxim, long associated with Confucius and echoed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, relocates achievement from the absence of failure to the response to it.

The move is more than consoling. A record without falls usually indicates modest ambition rather than exceptional ability, since anyone attempting difficult things will fail visibly and often. Making recovery the measure rewards persistence over caution — and it is the only standard available to people actually operating at the edge of what they can do.