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| Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. | George E. Allen | 1832-1907, British Publisher, Author, Engraver |
| The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. | George Gobel | |
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| A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. | George Gurdjieff | 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer |
| Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. | George Gurdjieff | 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer |
| Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. | George Halas | American Football Coach |
| There would be no great men if there were no little ones. | George Herbert | 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. | George Mcgovern | 1922-, American Democratic Politician |
| The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. | George S. Arundale | |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. | George Shinn | |
| Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. | Gerald F. Lieberman | American Writer |
| The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. | Gerard De Nerval | 1808-1855, French Novelist, Poet |
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| Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. | German Proverb | Sayings of German Origin |
| There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. | Grace Moore | |
| Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. | Grant M. Bright | British-Born American Engineer |
| They, that unnamed ''they,'' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. | Gregory Corso | 1930-, American Author |
| For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. | Grete Waitz | Norwegian-born American Marathon Runner |
| You can't hire someone to practice for you. | H. Jackson Brown Jr. | American Author of ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' Series |
| Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. | H. Ross Perot | 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS |
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| It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know. | Hannah More | 1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist |
| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. | Hare Charles | |
| When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner |
| Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. | Harry S. Truman | 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA |
| Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. | Harry S. Truman | 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA |
| Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. | Hector Hugh Munro | 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer |
| The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. | Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist |
| We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. | Henri Frederic Amiel | 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic |
| The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. | Henri Frederic Amiel | 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic |
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| The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. | Henry Bolingbroke | 1678-1751, British Politician |
| He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
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