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Bob Packwood
(Politician)

Judgment comes from experience, and great judgment comes from bad experience.

Satchel Paige

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

Idelette van Papendorp
(Editor)

Your purpose is the essence of who you are. It is the reason you are alive. To know your purpose, you first have to know who you are.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Joe Paterno
(College Football Coach)

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Alan Paton
(Cry, The Beloved Country Scribner Paperback Fiction)

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

George S. Patton
(U.S. Army General, 1885-1945)

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Tom Payne

Never do unto others until you're sure they want it done unto them.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Norman Vincent Peale
(Pastor and author, 1898-1993)

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

We tend to get what we expect.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must feed it good, nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

Lester B. Pearson
(Diplomat and Statesman, 1897-1972)

To deserve success is more important than to achieve it.

M. Scott Peck
(Psychiatrist and writer)

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Dave Pelzer
(Writer)

Of all the lessons I have been fortunate enough to learn, the single most powerful, most important one is: Hate no one!

William Penn
(Founder of the state of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.

Rochelle Pennington
(Writer)

We need to get worthy of our own selves and understand that no one is more deserving of our best behavior than we are.

S. J. Perelman
(Humorist, 1904-1979)

You don't know how much you don't know until your children grow up and tell you how much you don't know.

Tyler Perry
(Playwright)

When you have a gift to offer, the world will make room for you. You must have patience and keep the faith.

John Petit-Senn
(Writer, 1792-1870)

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Mary Pickford
(Actor, 1893-1979)

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Pablo Picasso
(Artist,1881-1973)

It takes a long time to become young.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third.

Harold Pinter
(Playwright)

The earth's about five thousand million years old. Who can afford to live in the past?

Plato

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Roger L. Plunk
(International mediator)

If I am to talk about peace, I should at least have something of it in my soul.

Plutarch
(Biographer, c. 46-120 A.D.)

Character is long-standing habit.

Norman Podhoretz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Edgar Allen Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only by night.

Odette Pollar
(Writer)

Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

Take yourself less seriously.

Catherine Ponder

What you praise you increase.

Mary Pettibone Poole

He who laughs, lasts.

Pope John XXIII
(1881-1963)

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Alexander Pope

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Antonio Porchia
(Writer, 1886-1968)

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

David Guy Powers

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

Hugh Prather
(Minister and Counselor)

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write.

Friends eventually forgive and come back together because people need people more than they need pride.

Jacques Prevert
(Intermede)

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Ira Progoff
(Psychologist and Educator, 1921-1998)

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

Sextus Propertius
(Poet, c. 50-16 B.C.)

Love itself is love's chief nourishment.

Marcel Proust
(Writer, 1871-1922)

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Ernest Pyle
(Journalist, 1900-1945)

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.