"Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes men try but fail. Not all worthy objectives are realized despite oneâ€™s honest and best efforts. True manhood is not always measured by the fruits of oneâ€™s labors but by the labors themselvesâ€“by oneâ€™s striving."

-- D. Todd Christofferson

#Integrity Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Men Quotes

“Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.”
“You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.”
“Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.”
“I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.”
“The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon ...”

Source : Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”
“My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.”
“I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.”
“I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.”

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