Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

John Piper

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

John Piper

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

Martin Mull

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

Martin Luther

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Mark Spitz

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Mark Teixeira

We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.

Nicole Kidman

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Nick Jonas

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

Nick Cave

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Nancy Grace

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Nam June Paik

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

Morton Feldman

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Seth Green

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

Seth Green

Jeff Ross has a new show on Comedy Central where he roasts the news. It'll be perfect for people who find Jon Stewart too handsome and funny.

Sebastian Horsley

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

Scott Hamilton

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Seth Godin

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Seth Godin

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Seth Godin

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Seth Godin

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Seth Godin

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Seth Godin

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Raven-Symone

My perfect guy right now would be a mannequin - one that comes alive only when I need him to!

Tom Hiddleston

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Rajneesh

The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

Rajneesh

Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

Rajneesh

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

Rajneesh

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.

Rajneesh

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

Rajneesh

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Socrates

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.