The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

– George Eliot  

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

– Frederick Douglass

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard        

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

– E.M. Forster