Concern Quotes
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."— Abraham Lincoln
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Meaning of this quote
A setback is less decisive than accepting it as the end of effort. The saying encourages learning rather than treating failure as an identity.
Key takeaway:
Review a setback and decide what to try next.
Origin of the quote
A widely repeated Lincoln attribution in later motivational collections.
Who actually said this?
Commonly attributedThe located modern military publication repeats the credit but supplies no original Lincoln letter, speech, or contemporary witness.
