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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Life, Winning, Game

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Waiting

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon

Life, Change, Live

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

Wanted, Realize, Somebody

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Music, Brain, Him

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

Power, Enemy, Liberty

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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health, Healing, Wish

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

Power, Wisdom, Successful

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

Service, Road, Ideal

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud

Great, Woman, Soul

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

Death, Greatly, Reports

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Learned, Said

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Heart, Deep

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Experience, Few, Virtues

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, Art, Before

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope, Important, Trying

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Life, Great, Hard

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Person, Whole, Last

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles, Smiles, Merely

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Someone

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

Regret, Leave, Behind

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Eyes, Once

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Themselves, Mystery

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Money, Understand, Why

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Care, Others, Smoking

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