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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

Failure, Blame, Else

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Education, Sense, Common

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Sad, Touch, Flowers

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Forgive, Easy

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Bad, Value

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Crisis, Hell, Moral

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Friend

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix

Trust, God, Important

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill

Before, Light, Few

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Love, Husband, Before

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

Music, Fear, Hear

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
Eminem

Hard, Getting, Harder

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
John F. Kennedy

Days, Hot, York

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe

Best, Selfish, Mistakes

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Mae West

Try, Once, Sure

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Short, Ourselves

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Same, Once, Ideas

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Time, May, Fail

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Kids, Three

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
Michael Jordan

Parents, Done, Next

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur

Half, Crime, Five

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

Black, Normal, Hands

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Country, Problem

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

Change, Find, Learned

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama

Leadership, Happen, Keep

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther

Life, Faith, God

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