“I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.”
“I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.”
“I don't fear failure. I fear succeeding at something that doesn't matter.”
“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.”
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.”
“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”