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| Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. | Bishop Hall | |
| My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. | Bjorn Borg | 1956-, Swedish Tennis Player |
| Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. | Blum Ralph | American Author |
| Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right? | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it. | Bob Wickman | 1969-, American Baseball Player |
| My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. | Bonnie Blair | 1964-, American Speed Skater |
| The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker T. Washington | 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator |
| If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it. | Brian Hays | |
| There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. | Brian Hays | |
| Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. | Brian Klemmer | |
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| Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. | Brigham Young | 1801-1877, American Mormon Leader |
| To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson. | Bruce Catton | American Author |
| Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. | Bruce Lee | 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist |
| A jug fills drop by drop. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot. | C. J. Weber | |
| Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. | C.R. Lawton | |
| All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| You can't know too much, but you can say too much. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
| Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
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| Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability. | Carl Yastrzemski | 1939-, American Baseball Player |
| A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. | Carlos Castaneda | American Anthropologist, Author |
| The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. | Caryl Haskins | |
| Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. | Catherine Drinker Bowen | 1897-1973, American Author |
| A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision. | Cavett Robert | |
| To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. | Charles De Montesquieu | 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher |
| It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| Everything that can be invented has been invented. | Charles H. Duell | Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 |
| By perseverance the snail reached the ark. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. | Charlotte Whitton | |
| Climb mountains to see lowlands. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. | Chris Evert | 1954-, American Tennis Player |
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| Ability is sexless. | Christabel Pankhurst | |
| We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| Practice without improvement is meaningless. | Chuck Knox | American Football Coach |
| He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge] | Clarence Darrow | 1857-1938, American Lawyer |
| Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. | Clarissa | |
| When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. | Clark Moustakas | Humanistic Psychologist |
| It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. | Claude Bernard | 1813-1878, French Physiologist |
| One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. | Claude M. Bristol | 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing'' |
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