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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life, Winning, Game

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life, Again, Succeed

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Truth, Evil

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

Chance, Housework

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Daily, Often, Last

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Loved, Press

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Almost, Bear

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya

Work, Successful, Yourself

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin

Work, Time, Dream

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Year

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

Love, Work, God

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Away

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

Nothing, Control, Sense

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Understand, Same

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Tomorrow, Happen

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Person, Involved, Birth

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, After, Sense

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller

Happy, Dark, Call

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe

Bed, Wear, Chanel

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Others, Another

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina Jolie

Good, Amazing, Happy

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

Humble, Real, Problem

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams, Time, Lonely

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Everything, Keep

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi

May, Opinions, Private

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Eminem

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowing, Admire, Admires

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Alone, Laughter

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