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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
Bill Cosby
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
Mark Twain
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
T.S. Eliot
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
Zig Ziglar
“To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying”
David Viscott
“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned"”
Epictetus
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
Henry Ford
“If at first you do succeed, try something harder”
Proverb
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
Groucho Marx
