Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinLearning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced. Barbara Tuchman
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Edison
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal. David Selby
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A good example is the best sermon. Thomas Fuller
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Nevell BoveeSetting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven. Benjamin Franklin
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Albert EinsteinPeople of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. Samuel Richardson
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. Mary Pettibone Poole
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Hugh Miller
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves. Frederick Douglass
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