“The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.”

“If you work hard and try your best absolutely anyone can do anything.”

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”