“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”

“And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.”

“Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.”

“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”

“But if neither sadness or rage could unite us, I didn't know what could - the more I wanted to identify with her, the more I identified with myself; and the more I tried to understand her, the less, necessarily, I succeeded: the failure of an intelligent mind to grasp feeblemindedness was dark and deep, no less than the failure of a feeble mind to grasp intelligence, because intelligence got its shape by not understanding the thing it could never be.”

“but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.”