Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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I said excuse me you're a hell of a guy, I mean my my my my you're like pelican fly!
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Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
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I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.
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You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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He gave me an excuse, and I didn't buy it.
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.
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At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
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Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.
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Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.
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I just think that humans were created to look upward
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I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
