Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Som...
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were diffe...
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