The truth spoken...

My son (age 14) pointed this quote out to me, which he saw in a stationary shop;

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
John Burroughs

I think it is food for thought for a lot of politicians and many South Africans?

How about;

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” 

Abraham Lincoln

How often do we do the opposite to this?

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs

And nothing more true than this;

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
Ralph Waldo Emerson