"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius
Our Greatest Glory Is Not In
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
About this quote
This saying is almost certainly not from Confucius. Quote Investigator has traced it to Oliver Goldsmith's Letters from a Citizen of the World (c. 1760), a series of fictional letters written from the perspective of a Chinese visitor to England. An editor's note describing one letter as drawn from "Confucius" led to the gradual misattribution, which was firmly established by 1831 when a London magazine printed it under his name. Confucius's actual writing style — short, dialogic passages in the Analects — bears little resemblance to this epigram.
Source
Attributed, widely reported in Confucian collections
