Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.
Life is a perilous voyage.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reachi...
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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...
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
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.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
We cannot all be masters.
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
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