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| My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. | Pete Rose | 1942-, American Baseball Player, Manager |
| Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. | Peter F. Drucker | 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author |
| Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. | Peter F. Drucker | 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author |
| No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. | Phillips Brooks | 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet |
| Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything. | Pickering | |
| We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. | Pierre Corneille | 1606-1684, French Dramatist |
| Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. | Pierre De Beaumarchais | 1732-1799, French Dramatist |
| The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. | Pir Vilayat Khan | 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author |
| Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
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| Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little. | Plutarch | 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer |
| You play the way you practice. | Pop Warner | |
| The first step toward greatness is to be honest. | Proverb | |
| Who knows most believes least. | Proverb | |
| Never say die. | Proverb | |
| The darkest hour is just before the dawn. | Proverb | |
| Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. | Publilius Syrus | 1st Century BC, Roman Writer |
| To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. | Quentin Crisp | 1908-, British Author |
| We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. | R. C. Allen | |
| It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. | R. K. Bergethon | |
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| Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| To be great is to be misunderstood. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Knowledge is the only elegance. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like you do in practice. What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game. | Randall Cunningham | 1963-, American Football Player |
| Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. | Raoul Vaneigem | 1934-, Belgian Situationist Philosopher |
| I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. | Ray Bradbury | 1920-, American Science Fiction Writer |
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| I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. | Ray Charles | 1930-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? | Ray Kroc | 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds |
| The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know. | Ray Stevens | |
| Just do what you do best. | Red Auerbach | 1917-, American Basketball Coach |
| Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. | Rembrandt | Harmenszoon van Rijn) (1606-1669, Dutch Painter, Artist |
| You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. | Rene Mcpherson | |
| A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. | Richard M. Nixon | 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA |
| We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life. | Richard Marcinko | American Business Author |
| No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. | Richard Petty | Race Car Driver |
| I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. | Robert Benchley | 1889-1945, American Humorist, Critic, Parodist |
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