"Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success."

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Source : Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

Michael Dell

#Mistake Quotes #Littles Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.”

Source : Song: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003
“Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.”
“I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.”
“Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .”
“The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.”

Source : "The Things Julian Castro Can Say" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2012.
“I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.”
“If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.”
“To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

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