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| It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. | John Wooden | 1910-, American Basketball Coach |
| I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgement is of age. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgement of age. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| What millions died that Caesar might be great? | Joseph Campell | |
| Perfection is the child of time. | Joseph Hall | 1574-1656, British Clergyman, Writer |
| I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
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| The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. | Josh Billings | 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer |
| Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. | Julie Andrews | 1935-, British Singer, Actress |
| The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. | Julius Erving | 1950-, American Basketball Player |
| The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
| Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. | Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist |
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| The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. | Karen Horney | 1885-1952, American Psychiatrist |
| Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. | Karl Baker | |
| Know one, know all. | Katha Upanishad | Ancient Hindu Scripture |
| I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. | Katherine Mansfield | 1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author |
| The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him. | Keith Miller | 1919-, Australian Cricketer |
| The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains | Ken Carey | |
| He who does not know one thing knows another | Kenyan Proverb | Sayings of Kenyan Origin |
| It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. | Kin Hubbard | 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist |
| After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school. | Kin Hubbard | 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist |
| Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. | Konrad Lorenz | 1903-1989, Austrian Zoologist, Ethnologist |
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| A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. | Lao-Tzu | BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' |
| To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. | Lao-Tzu | BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' |
| He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. | Lao-Tzu | BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' |
| Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. | Lao-Tzu | BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' |
| I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me. | Larry Bird | 1956-, American Basketball Player, Coach |
| When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro. | Larry Bird | 1956-, American Basketball Player, Coach |
| Practice is the best master. | Latin Proverb | Sayings of Latin Origin |
| Man cannot live by incompetence alone. | Laurence J. Peter | |
| The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance. | Lee Iacocca | 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler |
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| Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. | Leigh Hunt | 1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist |
| The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. | Leonard Neal | |
| What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so. | Leroy 'Satchel' Paige | 1906?-1982, American Baseball Player |
| All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| Practice only makes for improvement. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. | Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898, British Writer, Mathematician |
| The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth. | Lewis Lehr | American Businessman, President of 3M Company |
| The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
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