“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.”

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

“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”

“Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.”

“We were failures, all of us. We told him we had our reasons for the way things had turned out, but he didn't want to hear it. Told us that nothing consumed a man's soul more than the easy excuse.”

“Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.”