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I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Laughter is the music of life.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.

Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front page today?" You have no idea what the system will produce. But stepping back and giving consumers control is what brought more and more people to the site. They have a sense of ownership and discovery at the same time. If you give users the tools to spread and share their interests with others, they will use them to promote what is important to them.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

Life is an incurable disease.