143 quotes found
“When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.”
“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.”
“The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.”
“So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.”
“Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
“We cannot all be masters.”
“To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.”
“Prospect is often better than possession.”
“No one is expected to achieve the impossible.”
“The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.”
“'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.”
“It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.”
“May God ... let me strive for attainable things.”
“Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.”
“Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.”
“There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.”
“To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.”
“We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.”
