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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.
Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.