Someone once said "Don't try ...

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Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements.
 Jonathan Frakes

More phrases

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.
 Jonathan Frakes