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| There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. | Robert Half | American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & Associates |
| Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. | Robert K. Mueller | |
| When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. | Robert Strauss | |
| I wish I knew what I know now before. | Rod Stewart | British Pop Musician |
| If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!'' | Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse |
| To be somebody you must last. | Ruth Gordon | |
| We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. | Rutherford D. Roger | |
| A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. | Saadi | |
| How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. | Saadi | |
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| Our lives teach us who we are. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
| Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it. | Salvador Dali | 1904-1989, Spanish Painter |
| Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out. | Sam Snead | 1912-, American Golfer |
| When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. | Samuel Butler | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
| God Almighty hates a quitter. | Samuel Fessenden | 1847-1908, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars. | Samuel G. Goodrich | 1793-1860, American Publisher, Writer |
| He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| No one ever became great by imitation. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
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| Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own. | Samuel Smiles | 1812-1904, Scottish Author |
| Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. | Samuel Smiles | 1812-1904, Scottish Author |
| Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
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| Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. | Sandara Carey | |
| By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. | Saskya Pandita | 1182-1251, Tibetan Grand Lama of Saskya |
| Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small. | Saying | |
| I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. | Scotty Bowman | American Hockey Coach |
| The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. | Sean O'Casey | 1884-1964, Irish Dramatist |
| It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¿ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¿ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. | Seve Ballesteros | 1957-, Spanish Golfer |
| Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. | Sidney J. Harris | 1917-, American Journalist |
| If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. | Sidney Madwed | American Speaker, Consultant, Author, Poet |
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| Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. | Sir John Denham | 1615-1668, British Poet, Dramatist |
| Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. | Sir Joshua Reynolds | 1723-1792, British Artist, Critic |
| The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. | Sir Max Beerbohm | 1872-1956, British Actor |
| With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton | |
| Never despair, keep pushing on! | Sir Thomas Lipton | |
| Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: ''Don't grumble. Plug on!'' | Sir Thomas Treves | |
| To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. | Sir William Osler | 1849-1919, Canadian Physician |
| The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. | Sir William Temple | 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist |
| The unexamined life is not worth living. | Socrates | BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens |
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