Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Magic Johnson

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Mahatma Gandhi

Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Gavin Rossdale

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Gabrielle Union

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Freda Adler

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Julie Mehretu

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

Julie London

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Joyce Brothers

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Joseph Pilates

The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

Joseph Pilates

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Joseph Pilates

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Jules Feiffer

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Juan Manuel Santos

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

Joshua L. Liebman

God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

Joshua L. Liebman

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Josh Billings

Perseverance is king.

Karl Kraus

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Karl Kraus

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Karl Kraus

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.