"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on knowledge   

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on lies and lying
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"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world."

Chesterfield, Lord on manners   

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."

Edwards, Bob on learning
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"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

Rockefeller, John D. on perseverance
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

Shakespeare, William on character
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation."

Taylor, Sid on wisdom
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace."

Gersonides on peace
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"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

Herbert, George on skill   

"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on losers and losing
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"Courage is grace under pressure."

Hemingway, Ernest on courage
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"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on example
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"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on immortality
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

Macarthur, Douglas on soldier   

"It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on wealth   

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"

Barney, Natalie Clifford on possessions
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"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on life
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"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on courage   

"It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth   

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

Socrates on wisdom
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Augustine, St. on pain
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"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past."

Peters, Thomas J. on change
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"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."

Socrates on purpose
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"He that does good to another does good also to himself."

Seneca on cooperation
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"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"

Gerber, Michael E. on business
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"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace."

Cicero, Marcus T. on home
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"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."

Jong, Erica on entertainment
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"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

Ward, William A. on smile
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"The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."

Shaw, George Bernard on poverty and the poor   

"Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."

Lincoln, Abraham on glory
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"Character is more important than intelligence for success."

Beaux, Gilberte on success
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"We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it."

Drucker, Peter F. on motivation   

"While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize."

Mason, John L. on character
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