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“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed — I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician

Conversation with Jean Martet (1 June 1928), Ch. 30
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)

“That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”

Howard Thurman book Jesus and the Disinherited

Source: Jesus and the Disinherited

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) American capitalist and public official

“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Einstein paraphrasing Schopenhauer. Reportedly from On The Freedom Of The Will (1839), as translated in The Philosophy of American History: The Historical Field Theory (1945) by Morris Zucker, p. 531 Variant translations: Man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants. As quoted in The Motivated Brain: A Neurophysiological Analysis of Human Behavior (1991) by Pavel Vasilʹevich Simonov, p. 198 We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must. As quoted by Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929) p. 17. A scan of the article is available online here http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf (see p. 114). Attributed Source: Essays and Aphorisms

“Lastly, what is history for? This is perhaps a harder question than the others; a man who answers it will have to reflect rather more widely than a man who answers the three we have answered already. He must reflect not only on historical thinking but on other things as well, because to say that something is `for' something implies a distinction between A and B, where A is good for something and B is that for which something is good. But I will suggest an answer, and express the opinion that no historian would reject it, although the further questions to which it gives rise are numerous and difficult.
My answer is that history is `for' human self-knowledge. It is generally thought to be of importance to man that he should know himself: where knowing himself means knowing not his merely personal peculiarities, the things that distinguish him from other men, but his nature as man. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a man; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of man you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the man you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what he can do until he tries, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”

R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher

Source: The Idea of History (1946), p. 10

“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 786
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”

Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) English actor and theatre manager

Quoted by Max Beerbohm in Hebert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm http://books.google.com/books?id=wM08AAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;A+man+never+knows+what+a+fool+he+is+until+he+hears+himself+imitated+by+one&quot;&pg=PA312#v=onepage (1920).

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

“Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.”

William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost

Source: Love's Labour's Lost

“Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J. Disputed Variant: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Variant: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Disputed Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

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