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52 Teams of 8 Helped Make Humanity Great Quotes |
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| 1.1 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 1.2 |
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 |
| 1.3 |
It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880 |
| 1.4 |
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC |
| 1.5 |
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 1.6 |
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 |
| 1.7 |
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 |
| 1.8 |
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
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| 2.1 |
Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 |
| 2.2 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 2.3 |
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 |
| 2.4 |
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 2.5 |
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887 |
| 2.6 |
Fortune favors the audacious. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 |
| 2.7 |
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD |
| 2.8 |
The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC |
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| 3.1 |
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 |
| 3.2 |
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 3.3 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 3.4 |
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 |
| 3.5 |
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817 |
| 3.6 |
Follow your honest convictions and be strong. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 |
| 3.7 |
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 |
| 3.8 |
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James 1842 - 1910 |
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| 4.1 |
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. - Robert G. Ingersoll 1857 - 1899 |
| 4.2 |
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 |
| 4.3 |
Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906 |
| 4.4 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 4.5 |
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794 |
| 4.6 |
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 |
| 4.7 |
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637 |
| 4.8 |
Aim for the highest. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919 |
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| 5.1 |
Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 |
| 5.2 |
I may walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
| 5.3 |
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794 |
| 5.4 |
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 |
| 5.5 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 5.6 |
Honest hearts produce honest actions. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 |
| 5.7 |
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
| 5.8 |
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918 |
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| 6.1 |
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. - John Bright 1811 - 1889 |
| 6.2 |
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. - Marguerite Gardiner 1789 - 1849 |
| 6.3 |
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 |
| 6.4 |
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC |
| 6.5 |
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC |
| 6.6 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 6.7 |
Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 |
| 6.8 |
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904 |
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| 7.1 |
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 7.2 |
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 7.3 |
Simplicity is the glory of expression. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 |
| 7.4 |
And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. - Phoebe Cary 1822 - 1871 |
| 7.5 |
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 |
| 7.6 |
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC |
| 7.7 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 7.8 |
Fortune favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895 |
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| 8.1 |
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519 |
| 8.2 |
Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 |
| 8.3 |
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. - Francois Rabelais 1494 - 1553 |
| 8.4 |
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 8.5 |
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856 |
| 8.6 |
Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC |
| 8.7 |
In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830 - 1916 |
| 8.8 |
Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
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| 9.1 |
Until we are all free, we are none of us free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887 |
| 9.2 |
The best protection any woman can have... is courage. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 |
| 9.3 |
Honest people don't hide their deeds. - Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848 |
| 9.4 |
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. - Catherine II 1729 - 1796 |
| 9.5 |
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833 |
| 9.6 |
Reject hatred without hating. - Mary Baker Eddy 1821 - 1910 |
| 9.7 |
I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 9.8 |
Instinct is the nose of the mind. - Delphine de Girardin 1804 - 1855 |
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| 10.1 |
The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. - Benjamin Banneker 1731 - 1806 |
| 10.2 |
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. - Harriet Jacobs - 1813 - 1897 |
| 10.3 |
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 |
| 10.4 |
You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 |
| 10.5 |
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 |
| 10.6 |
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 10.7 |
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. - Alexandre Dumas 1802 - 1870 |
| 10.8 |
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883 |
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| 11.1 |
A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
| 11.2 |
There are times when the greatest change needed is my viewpoint. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784 |
| 11.3 |
Resolve and thou art free. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 |
| 11.4 |
Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy 1873 - 1914 |
| 11.5 |
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 |
| 11.6 |
Man is only great when he acts from passion. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
| 11.7 |
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852 |
| 11.8 |
Don't count your years, make your years count. - George Meredith 1828 - 1909 |
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| 12.1 |
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 12.2 |
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 |
| 12.3 |
Know yourself to improve yourself. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857 |
| 12.4 |
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 |
| 12.5 |
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 |
| 12.6 |
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
| 12.7 |
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 |
| 12.8 |
Justice delayed is justice denied. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898 |
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| 13.1 |
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857 |
| 13.2 |
We forge the chains we wear in life. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 |
| 13.3 |
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 |
| 13.4 |
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 |
| 13.5 |
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. - David Garrick 1717 - 1779 |
| 13.6 |
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661 |
| 13.7 |
The bud of victory is always in the truth. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901 |
| 13.8 |
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. - Herbert Spencer 1820 - 1903 |
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| 14.1 |
Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 |
| 14.2 |
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 |
| 14.3 |
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 |
| 14.4 |
The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke 1632 - 1704 |
| 14.5 |
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714 |
| 14.6 |
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773 |
| 14.7 |
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919 |
| 14.8 |
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778 |
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| 15.1 |
What we think, we become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC |
| 15.2 |
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 15.3 |
Those that vow the most are the least sincere. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816 |
| 15.4 |
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891 |
| 15.5 |
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 |
| 15.6 |
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711 |
| 15.7 |
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. - Franz Liszt 1811 - 1886 |
| 15.8 |
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. - Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642 |
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| 16.1 |
The wise does at once what the fool does at last. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 16.2 |
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. - Hippocrates 460 BC - 370 BC |
| 16.3 |
A person should be upright, not be kept upright. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD |
| 16.4 |
I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't. - Willie Keeler 1872 - 1923 |
| 16.5 |
Sunlight is painting. Moonlight is sculpture. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 - 1864 |
| 16.6 |
A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 |
| 16.7 |
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 |
| 16.8 |
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
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| 17.1 |
Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC |
| 17.2 |
Friendship that can cease is never real. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD |
| 17.3 |
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 17.4 |
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 |
| 17.5 |
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 17.6 |
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. - Horace Smith 1779 - 1893 |
| 17.7 |
Patience will achieve more than force. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 17.8 |
When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914 |
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| 18.1 |
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
| 18.2 |
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC |
| 18.3 |
Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 |
| 18.4 |
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 |
| 18.5 |
Love’s language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves. Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 18.6 |
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. - Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902 |
| 18.7 |
Philosophy is common sense with big words. - James Madison 1751 - 1836 |
| 18.8 |
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. - Thomas Gray 1716 - 1771 |
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| 19.1 |
Business is the salt of life. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 |
| 19.2 |
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 |
| 19.3 |
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 |
| 19.4 |
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 19.5 |
Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 |
| 19.6 |
An overflow of good converts to bad. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 |
| 19.7 |
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 |
| 19.8 |
A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
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| 20.1 |
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833 |
| 20.2 |
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC |
| 20.3 |
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 |
| 20.4 |
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. - Horace Greeley 1811 - 1872 |
| 20.5 |
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
| 20.6 |
Prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC |
| 20.7 |
Jesters do often prove prophets. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 |
| 20.8 |
A person’s worth is no greater than their ambitions. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD |
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| 21.1 |
I got my start by giving myself a start. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 21.2 |
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 21.3 |
Men are only as great as they are kind. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 |
| 21.4 |
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 |
| 21.5 |
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. - Benjamin Rush 1745 - 1813 |
| 21.6 |
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 |
| 21.7 |
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 |
| 21.8 |
Nobody minds having what is too good for them. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817 |
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| 22.1 |
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891 |
| 22.2 |
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert 1593 - 1633 |
| 22.3 |
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881 |
| 22.4 |
He who has never failed somewhere, can not be great. - Herman Melville 1819 - 1891 |
| 22.5 |
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684 |
| 22.6 |
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 22.7 |
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 |
| 22.8 |
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. - George Bancroft 1800 - 1891 |
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| 23.1 |
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depends on it. - Cardinal Richelieu 1585 - 1642 |
| 23.2 |
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. - Baruch Spinoza 1632 - 1677 |
| 23.3 |
I am a part of all that I have seen. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 |
| 23.4 |
Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860 |
| 23.5 |
Life is only understood backwards; but must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855 |
| 23.6 |
He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison. - Daniel Drew 1797 - 1879 |
| 23.7 |
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799 |
| 23.8 |
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. - Rosa Luxemburg 1871 - 1919 |
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| 24.1 |
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 |
| 24.2 |
Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC |
| 24.3 |
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. - Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881 |
| 24.4 |
A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 |
| 24.5 |
You are one of the forces of nature. - Jules Michelet 1798 - 1874 |
| 24.6 |
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne 1572 - 1631 |
| 24.7 |
Nothing can be done except little by little. - Charles Baudelaire 1821 - 1867 |
| 24.8 |
Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. - James Otis 1725 - 1783 |
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| 25.1 |
Great lives never go out; they go on. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901 |
| 25.2 |
Reason gains all people by compelling none. - Aaron Hill –1685 - 1750 |
| 25.3 |
Everything is sweetened by risk. - Alexander Smith 1830 - 1867 |
| 25.4 |
Love is the crowning grace of humanity. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 |
| 25.5 |
Have the courage of your desire. - George Gissing 1857 - 1903 |
| 25.6 |
Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887 |
| 25.7 |
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 |
| 25.8 |
Fortune, favors fools. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637 |
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| 26.1 |
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860 |
| 26.2 |
Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 26.3 |
Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 26.4 |
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 |
| 26.5 |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519 |
| 26.6 |
To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 |
| 26.7 |
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 |
| 26.8 |
Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC |
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| 27.1 |
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 |
| 27.2 |
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne 1572 - 1631 |
| 27.3 |
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 |
| 27.4 |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 |
| 27.5 |
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 |
| 27.6 |
Leap, and the net will appear. - John Burroughs 1837 - 1921 |
| 27.7 |
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. - Samuel Foote 1720 - 1777 |
| 27.8 |
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Xenophon 431 BC - 354 BC |
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| 28.1 |
To begin, begin. - William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 |
| 28.2 |
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 |
| 28.3 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller 1810 - 1850 |
| 28.4 |
Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 |
| 28.5 |
Learn what is true in order to do what is right - Thomas Huxley 1825 - 1895 |
| 28.6 |
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 28.7 |
A contented mind is the greatest blessing you can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 |
| 28.8 |
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755 |
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| 29.1 |
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. - Luc de Clapier 1715 - 1747 |
| 29.2 |
True change takes place in the imagination. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852 |
| 29.3 |
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC |
| 29.4 |
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891 |
| 29.5 |
Speak softly, carry a big stick and you'll go far. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 |
| 29.6 |
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 |
| 29.7 |
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. - John Wanamaker 1838 - 1922 |
| 29.8 |
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BC |
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| 30.1 |
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 |
| 30.2 |
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 |
| 30.3 |
Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson 1830 -1886 |
| 30.4 |
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 30.5 |
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC |
| 30.6 |
I like the noise of democracy. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868 |
| 30.7 |
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711 |
| 30.8 |
Better late than never. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714 |
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| 31.1 |
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. - Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - 1527 |
| 31.2 |
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684 |
| 31.3 |
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC |
| 31.4 |
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC |
| 31.5 |
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891 |
| 31.6 |
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898 |
| 31.7 |
There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC |
| 31.8 |
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC |
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| 32.1 |
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. - Marshall Field 1834 - 1906 |
| 32.2 |
Conviction is the conscience of the mind. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794 |
| 32.3 |
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 |
| 32.4 |
Be that self which one truly is. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855 |
| 32.5 |
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 |
| 32.6 |
Force has no place where there is need of skill. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC |
| 32.7 |
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 |
| 32.8 |
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 |
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| 33.1 |
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836 |
| 33.2 |
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 |
| 33.3 |
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. - Epictetus 55 BC - 135 AD |
| 33.4 |
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 |
| 33.5 |
Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC |
| 33.6 |
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. - Jose Marti 1853 - 1895 |
| 33.7 |
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 |
| 33.8 |
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871 |
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| 34.1 |
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace 65 BC - 8 BC |
| 34.2 |
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 34.3 |
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 |
| 34.4 |
Education is the cheap defense of nations. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 34.5 |
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 |
| 34.6 |
My object in life is not simply to make money for myself. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 34.7 |
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC |
| 34.8 |
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
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| 35.1 |
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658 |
| 35.2 |
There is nothing like a dream to create a future. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 |
| 35.3 |
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC |
| 35.4 |
Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 35.5 |
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - John Ray 1627 - 1705 |
| 35.6 |
All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith 1723 - 1790 |
| 35.7 |
To advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. - Thomas Hood 1799 - 1845 |
| 35.8 |
Familiarity is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. - Ouida 1839 - 1908 |
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| 36.1 |
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. - James Madison 1751 - 1836 |
| 36.2 |
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness. - William C. Bryant 1794 - 1878 |
| 36.3 |
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. - William James 1842 - 1910 |
| 36.4 |
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888 |
| 36.5 |
Perseverance is my motto. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 |
| 36.6 |
Be not simply good - be good for something. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 |
| 36.7 |
He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658 |
| 36.8 |
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784 |
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| 37.1 |
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. - Gustave Flaubert 1821 - 1880 |
| 37.2 |
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904 |
| 37.3 |
Travel teaches toleration. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
| 37.4 |
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 |
| 37.5 |
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 37.6 |
I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes 1596 - 1650 |
| 37.7 |
After all is said and done, more is said than done. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC |
| 37.8 |
Where there are friends there is wealth. - Titus Maccius Plautus 254 BC - 185 BC |
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| 38.1 |
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845 |
| 38.2 |
The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product. - Henry Ellis 1721 - 1806 |
| 38.3 |
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 38.4 |
He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884 |
| 38.5 |
Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 |
| 38.6 |
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 38.7 |
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 |
| 38.8 |
It is the mind that makes the body. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883 |
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| 39.1 |
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 39.2 |
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 |
| 39.3 |
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727 |
| 39.4 |
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 |
| 39.5 |
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. - Julius Caesar 100 B - 44 BC |
| 39.6 |
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 39.7 |
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593 |
| 39.8 |
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321 |
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| 40.1 |
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836 |
| 40.2 |
Know or listen to those who know. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 40.3 |
Do every act of your life as if it were your last. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD |
| 40.4 |
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 |
| 40.5 |
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC |
| 40.6 |
Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906 |
| 40.7 |
The surest test of discipline is its absence. - Clara Barton 1821 - 1912 |
| 40.8 |
A majority is always better than the best repartee. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
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| 41.1 |
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 |
| 41.2 |
I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 |
| 41.3 |
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871 |
| 41.4 |
No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BC |
| 41.5 |
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 |
| 41.6 |
Through science we prove, but through intuition we discover. - Henri Poincare 1854 - 1912 |
| 41.7 |
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 |
| 41.8 |
There is no sin but ignorance. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593 |
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| 42.1 |
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC |
| 42.2 |
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 42.3 |
A word to the wise is enough. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC |
| 42.4 |
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Huneker 1857 - 1921 |
| 42.5 |
A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
| 42.6 |
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 |
| 42.7 |
How much better it is to be envied than to be pitied. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC |
| 42.8 |
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845 |
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| 43.1 |
If I were two-faced, why would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
| 43.2 |
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 |
| 43.3 |
Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 |
| 43.4 |
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 |
| 43.5 |
What is right and what is practicable are two different things. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868 |
| 43.6 |
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 |
| 43.7 |
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. - Hosea Ballou 1771 - 1852 |
| 43.8 |
They can because they think they can. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC |
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| 44.1 |
To the victors belong the spoils. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845 |
| 44.2 |
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Camillo di Cavour 1810 - 1861 |
| 44.3 |
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 44.4 |
A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen 1828 - 1906 |
| 44.5 |
Friendships are discovered rather than made. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 |
| 44.6 |
Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 |
| 44.7 |
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 |
| 44.8 |
Consequences are unpitying. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880 |
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| 45.1 |
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321 |
| 45.2 |
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
| 45.3 |
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC |
| 45.4 |
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. - Vincent Van Gogh 1853 - 1890 |
| 45.5 |
Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
| 45.6 |
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James 1842 - 1910 |
| 45.7 |
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 |
| 45.8 |
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. - Henri Frederic Amiel 1821 - 1881 |
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| 46.1 |
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 |
| 46.2 |
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 |
| 46.3 |
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755 |
| 46.4 |
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 |
| 46.5 |
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859 |
| 46.6 |
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826 |
| 46.7 |
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 |
| 46.8 |
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubbock 1834 - 1913 |
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| 47.1 |
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 |
| 47.2 |
The game is never lost till won. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832 |
| 47.3 |
Friendship is essentially a partnership. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC |
| 47.4 |
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James 1842 - 1910 |
| 47.5 |
Live your life and forget your age. - Jean Paul 1763 - 1825 |
| 47.6 |
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 |
| 47.7 |
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 |
| 47.8 |
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 |
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| 48.1 |
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 |
| 48.2 |
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887 |
| 48.3 |
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 |
| 48.4 |
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume 1711 - 1776 |
| 48.5 |
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - John Fletcher 1579 - 1625 |
| 48.6 |
Ambition is not a vice of little people. - Michel de Montaigne 1533 - 1592 |
| 48.7 |
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826 |
| 48.8 |
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856 |
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| 49.1 |
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion. - Georg Hegel 1770 - 1831 |
| 49.2 |
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 |
| 49.3 |
I could never hate anyone I really know. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 |
| 49.4 |
Prevention is better than cure. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 |
| 49.5 |
All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661 |
| 49.6 |
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume 1711 - 1776 |
| 49.7 |
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 |
| 49.8 |
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799 |
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| 50.1 |
A penny saved is a penny earned. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
| 50.2 |
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593 |
| 50.3 |
If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 50.4 |
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832 |
| 50.5 |
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816 |
| 50.6 |
Self-confidence is the first step to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 |
| 50.7 |
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859 |
| 50.8 |
Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 |
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| 51.1 |
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 |
| 51.2 |
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC |
| 51.3 |
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 |
| 51.4 |
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC |
| 51.5 |
I would rather make my name than inherit it. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 |
| 51.6 |
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 |
| 51.7 |
Every dog is a lion at home. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884 |
| 51.8 |
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 |
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| 52.1 |
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. - Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 - 1375 |
| 52.2 |
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC |
| 52.3 |
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918 |
| 52.4 |
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 |
| 52.5 |
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773 |
| 52.6 |
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. - William Samuel Johnson 1727 - 1819 |
| 52.7 |
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 |
| 52.8 |
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 |
