143 quotes found
“If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is s...”
“Life is a perilous voyage.”
“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”
“It is impossible to control creation.”
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.”
“We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”
“To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.”
“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 rea...”
“Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.”
“Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.”
“There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.”
“We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.”
“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”
“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?”
“I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.”
“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.”
“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
“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. ... ...”
