"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "
Theodore Roosevelt
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else."
Will Rogers
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of."
Pascal
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
Katherine Hepburn
"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." — Groucho Marx
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It was a quote that I had heard before and forgotten about. But I like it.
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