#oft

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#always #any #best #circumstances #effort

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#much #often #tell #tells #too

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ↗

— Don Marquis

#blood #boast #descendants #family #finish

Of course one should not drink much, but often. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#drink #much #often #should

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#data #generates #information #management #package

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #earned #exerted #hardly #his

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#harder #lord #often #patience #teach

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

#desired #different #even #learned #much

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#drummer #drums #film #film work #first