| "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." »Seneca |
| "Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines." »David Letterman |
| "Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." »George Orwell |
| "Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil." »Epictetus |
| "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." »Nicholas Chamfort |
| "Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper |
| "Ted Striker It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit." »Airplane |
| "Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning." »Hesiod |
| "Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield |
| "Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." »John Brown |
| "We can't begin to understand what God has planned for us, But we face each day with a smile, and in his name we trust For in this vast world.....is Love If only we could see the dove It seems sometimes he doesn't care When things get rough and hard to bear But with our Faith we can survive Because in our hearts HE is Alive" »Beth Knight |
| "Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong" »Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| "I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." »Theodore Roosevelt |
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