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| Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. | Claude M. Bristol | 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing'' |
| The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours. | Confucius | BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher |
| Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. | Conrad Hilton | 1887-1979, American Hotelier, Businessman, Founder, Hilton Hotels |
| Others have done it before me. I can, too. | Corporal John Faunce | American soldier |
| There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. | Count Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher |
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| If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. | Curly Howard | |
| Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. | Dale Carnegie | 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer |
| The only way to overcome is to hang in. | Dan O'Brien | 1966, American Track Athlete |
| The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. | Daniel Webster | 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman |
| The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. | Dante | Alighieri) (1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet |
| A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success. | Darius Ogden Mills | |
| You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do. | David Cronenberg | 1943-, Canadian Filmmaker |
| You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. | David Harold Fink | |
| All great achievements require time. | David J. Schwartz | American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big'' |
| It's always too soon to quit. | David T. Scoates | |
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| Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. | David Zucker | |
| All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
| As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home. | Dhammapada | BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism |
| For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. | Don Hutson | American Football Player |
| Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. | Doug Horton | |
| The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. | Doug Larson | |
| There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. | Douglas Everett | American Hockey Player |
| The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them. | Douglas Everett | American Hockey Player |
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| Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. | E. Joseph Cossman | American Businessman, Author, Lecturer |
| Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. | Earl Pitts | |
| I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer |
| Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. | Edgar Degas | 1834-1917, French Painter, Sculptor |
| The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. | Edward Abbey | 1927-1989, American Writer |
| Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. | Edward Eggleston | American Writer, Historian |
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| It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness. | Edward Gardner | American Businessman, Founder of Soft Sheen Products |
| The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| None think the great unhappy, but the great. | Edward Young | 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist |
| Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known. | Edwin P. Whipple | 1819-1886, American Essayist |
| It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
| How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
| The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. | Elias Canetti | 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher |
| All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. | Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist |
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