It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair,

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Self
category

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. – Margot Fonteyn

Category:
Self

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. – Roscoe Snowden

Category:
Self

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. – Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

Category:
Self

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. – Deepak Chopra

Category:
Self

Random Quotes

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. – Lucinda Williams

Category:
Happiness

It is anothers fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
great

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. – Helen Rowland

Category:
Men

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. – Caleb Cushing

Category:
Intelligence