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| We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. | Thomas A. Edison | 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE |
| Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. | Thomas Arnold | 1795-1842, British Educator, Scholar |
| Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. | Thomas B. Macaulay | 1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian |
| The king is the man who can. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
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| The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. | Thomas Carlyle | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. | Thomas Ð Kempis | 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer |
| Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
| Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
| Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
| A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. | Thomas Somerville | |
| Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
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| You never know yourself till you know more than your body. | Thomas Traherne | 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic |
| Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. | Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 1823-1911, American Clergyman, Writer |
| Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. | Titus Livy | BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian |
| Persevere in virtue and diligence. | Titus Livy | BC 59-17 AD, Roman Historian |
| We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. | Tobias Wolff | |
| Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. | Tom Bradley | American Baseball Player |
| Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. | Tom Hopkins | American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author |
| It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. | Tom Stoppard | 1937-, Czech Playwright |
| I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train. | Tracy Caulkins | American Swimmer |
| Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. | Ulysses S. Grant | 1822-1885, American General, President |
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| Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-, American Author |
| Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. | Vic Braden | American Tennis Coach |
| Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. | Vicomte De Chateaubriand | 1768-1848, French Politician, Writer |
| There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. | Victor Hugo | 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. | Vince Lombardi | 1913-1970, American Football Coach |
| They are able because they think they are able. | Virgil | c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet |
| We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. | Virginia Satir | American Family Therapist, Lecturer, Trainer, Author |
| The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. | W. R. Whitney | |
| Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
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| Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
| Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
| American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
| Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. | Walter Elliott | |
| We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbours is to know ourselves. | Walter Lippmann | 1889-1974, American Journalist |
| Great men always pay deference to greater. | Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
| Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it. | Wayne Dyer | 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer |
| The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me. | Wayne Gretzky | 1961-, Canadian Hockey Player |
| The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. | William Booth | 1829-1912, British Religious Leader, Salvation Army Founder |
| The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. |
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