Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zig Ziglar

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Yves Saint Laurent

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

William Harvey

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

William Hazlitt

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them

Walter Pater

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Vladimir Nabokov

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Vladimir Nabokov

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Yotam Ottolenghi

A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

Yoko Ono

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

Yani Tseng

I have a fearless but neutral personality.

Xavier Becerra

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

Willie Sutton

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,

William P. Leahy

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

William Peter Blatty

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

William Osler

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William P. Young

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

[I] do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

Zig Ziglar

Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.

Zig Ziglar

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Zig Ziglar

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

Zig Ziglar

When your image improves, your performance improves.

Zoe Saldana

I have a hyper personality.