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| It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. | Mary Caroline Richards | |
| In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. | Marya Mannes | 1904-1990, American Writer |
| Greatness is a spiritual condition. | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. | Maxwell Maltz | American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'' |
| The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. | Meister Eckhart | 1260-1326 AD, German Mystic |
| If it's not growing, it's going to die. | Michael Eisner | American Business Executive, CEO of Walt Disney Productions |
| I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two! | MoliLre | 1622-1673, French Playwright |
| Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death. | MoliLre | 1622-1673, French Playwright |
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| I will hold. | Motto | |
| Through struggle to the stars. | Motto | |
| Ability is of little account without opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle... | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| Knowledge is only potential power. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
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| What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. | Napoleon Hill | 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'' |
| Every animal knows more than you do. | Native American Proverb | Sayings of Native American Origin |
| Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. | Newt Gingrich | American Statesman |
| Unlimited economic growth has the marvellous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on. | Norman Vincent Peale | 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author |
| As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
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| All my life I have always known I was born to greatness. | Oprah Winfrey | 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author |
| I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. | Orel Herhiser | American Baseball Player |
| The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. | Orison Swett Marden | 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine |
| Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. | Orlando A. Battista | |
| It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| I am not young enough to know everything. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.'' | Oswald Chambers | 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author |
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| Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. | Ovid | BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet |
| An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. | Pancho Segura | Ecuador Tennis Player |
| There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. | Pearl Bailey | 1918-1990, American Vocalist, Movie and Stage Actress |
| Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. | Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
| Love dies only when growth stops. | Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. | Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
| Everything is practice. | Pele | Brazilian Soccer Star |
| Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. | Percy Ross | American Columnist |
| It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. | Persian Proverb | Sayings of Persian Origin |
| He conquers who endures. | Persius | 34-62 AD, Satirical Poet |
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