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| A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. | Jean De La Bruyere | 1645-1696, French Writer |
| Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. | Jean De La Fontaine | 1621-1695, French Poet |
| He knows the universe and does not know himself. | Jean De La Fontaine | 1621-1695, French Poet |
| Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valourized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value. | Jean FranÜois Lyotard | 1924-, French Philosopher |
| Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist |
| Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. | Jennie Garth | 1972-, American Actress |
| Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. | Jeremy Collier | 1650-1726, British Clergyman, Conjuror |
| I never thought I didn't have a card to play. | Jim Lovell | 1928-, American Astronaut |
| There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors. | Jim Morrison | 1943-1971, American Rock Musician |
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| How long should you try? Until. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| Measure not by the scale of perfection the meagre product of reality. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. | Johann Gottfried Von Herder | 1744-1803, German Critic and Poet |
| To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. | Johann Kaspar Lavater | 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic |
| There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. | Johann Sebastian Bach | |
| Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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| Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| What is not fully understood is not possessed. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. | John Abbott | American Actor |
| Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. | John Andrew Holmes | |
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| We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. | John Archibald Wheeler | 1911-, American Theoretical Physicist |
| I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. | John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon |
| Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. | John Dewey | 1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator |
| The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. | John G. Pollard | |
| Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. | John Henry Newman | 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer |
| Growth is the only evidence of life. | John Henry Newman | 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer |
| Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. | John Lyly | c.1554-1606, British Writer |
| The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it. | John Morely | |
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| And all your future lies beneath your hat. | John Oldham | 1653-1683, British Poet |
| When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. | John Stuart Mill | 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist |
| Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
| Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. | John Wooden | 1910-, American Basketball Coach |
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