"If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing."

-- Myles Horton

#Struggle Quotes #Winning Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.”
“The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.”

Source : Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press
“I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't think God's through with me,”

Source : "'This Week' Transcript: Stephanie Cutter and Eric Fehrnstrom". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.
“I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.”
“My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.”
“Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.”

Source : Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone
“The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.”

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