sad quotes about not being good enough

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971



The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~Ross Perot



In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ~Cicero



Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle



If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson



Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ~Author Unknown



Truth is a great flirt. ~Franz Liszt



If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb



A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan



A human life is a story told by God. ~Hans Christian Andersen



If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain



Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion. ~F.A. Paradis de Moncrif



What is bought is cheaper than a gift. ~Portuguese Proverb



The other line moves faster. ~Etorre's Observation



It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp



For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~John Burroughs



There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry



The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab



To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender