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| Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. | William Cowper | 1731-1800, British Poet |
| Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. | William Ellery Channing | 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author |
| In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. | William Ernest Henley | 1849-1903, British Poet, Critic, Editor |
| There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. | William F. Halsey | American Admiral |
| When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. | William Faulkner | 1897-1962, American Novelist |
| Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favourable to you. | William Frederick Book | |
| No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
| No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
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| Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. | William J. Durant | 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist |
| The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. | William James | 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author |
| Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. | William James | 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author |
| Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. | William James | 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author |
| To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness? | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. | William Morris Hunt | |
| Knowledge is the treasure, but judgement is the treasurer of the one who is wise. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| He is not great who is not greatly good. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night] | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
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| Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. | William Van Horne | |
| Neither evil tongues, rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us. | William Wordsworth | 1770-1850, British Poet |
| In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| The price of greatness is responsibility. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Great and good are seldom the same man. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
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| If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Never, never, never, never give up. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Paralyze resistance with persistence. | Woody Hayes | American College Football Coach |
| In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. | Yogi Berra | 1925-, American Baseball Player |
| You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar | American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker |
| This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. | Zig Ziglar | American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker |
| The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. | A. J. P. Taylor | 1906-1990, British Historian |
| If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. | A. P. Gouthey | |
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| These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. | Adnan Kashoggi | |
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