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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Mistakes, Nothing

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

Life, Simple, Insist

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Life, Busy, While

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whole, Eye, Blind

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Acceptance

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, True

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter Drucker

Leadership, Results, Liked

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

Positive, Mistakes, Makes

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Else, Excuses

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Mark Twain

Land, Anymore, Buy

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Girl, Two, Away

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

Stupid, Hard, Wrong

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

War, Country, Die

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Revenge, Someone, Impossible

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Life, Faith, Yourself

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Children

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Enemy, Mistake, Interrupt

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn

Cannot, Sometimes, Decisions

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
Eminem

Funny, Trust, Hard

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Judith Viorst

Music, Laughter, Friends

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone

Truth, Liar, Begins

I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Eminem

Life, Music, Keep

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

Life, Best, Grace

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Problem, Place

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Family, Year, Less

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