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“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”
Sarah McLachlan
“I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
Beverly Sills
“Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader.It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!You can’t hold a man down withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington”
Booker T. Washington
“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.”
Albert Camus
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
Bette Midler
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run”
Abraham Lincoln
“The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”
G. K. Chesterton