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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Hannah Whitall Smith

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

James A. Garfield

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.

Mark Twain

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle—pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.

Sri Ramakrishna

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

Andrew Carnegie

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Ralph Waldo Socrates

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Kurt Cobain

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

E.w. Howe

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

Winston Churchill

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

Rollo May

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.

Woody Allen

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group.' 'Yeah,' I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.

Jack Handey

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi or •Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

George S. Patton

It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

George Eliot

There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Dale Carnegie

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison S. Marden

So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.

Robert Williams Buchanan

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