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nice and fits the general positive theme of the quotes below, then you can
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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
Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and
loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up
somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat
And if a friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what
you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"
Democritus
A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
The future is the past in preparation.
P. Dac
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the
rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
God has not called me to be successful; he has called me to be faithful.
Mother Theresa
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Michel de Montaigne
The man must be tremendously ignorant: he answers every question that is put to him.
Voltaire
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can
go.
T.S. Eliot
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Learning make a good man better and an ill man worse.
Thomas Fuller
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with
proportional eagerness and haste.
William Hazlitt
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they
understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is
when you read the fine print, experience is what you
get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his
actions.
Baruch Spinoza
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to
unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for
a great deal.
William Allen White
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
An optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and
the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
God gave men limited ability, but unlimited ambition and desire.
Fortune Cookie
Trees die standing.
personal quote
Every word is a preconceived judgment.
Friedrich Nietzche
By working faithfully eight hours per day, you may eventually get to be a
boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
I am not young enough to know everything.
Sir James M. Barrie
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can
reach for; perfection is God's Business.
Michael J. Fox
Whether you believe you can succeed or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
Know that setbacks pave the way to comebacks.
Billboard sign
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo da Vinci
All men dream: but not equally.
E. Lawrence
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
Al Oerter
K.M.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority
to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral
inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain
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