"Men do not fail; they give up trying." — Elihu Root
"Men do not fail; they give up trying."
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Elihu Root
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38 Quotes by Elihu Root
Elihu Root has 38 quotes on this site.
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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful…
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of…
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to…
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The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second…
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut…
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude…
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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and…
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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real…
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Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial…
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
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Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
— Christian Bale
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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites,…
— Clara Barton
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to…
— Glenn Beck
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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