Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Reid Hoffman

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Springfield

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

Rick Yancey

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Trot Nixon

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Oscar Pistorius

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Peter Greenaway

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

Pauline Kael

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Pauline Kael

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

Pauline Kael

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.

Paul von Hindenburg

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Paul Wellstone

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Mary Pipher

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Mary Oliver

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Mary Douglas

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.