Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

Jim Lovell

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Jim Rohn

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Jim Rohn

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Emily Post

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Emily Post

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

Emily Post

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere...

Elliot Perlman

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.

Ellen Hopkins

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

Ellen Hopkins

‎Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

Ellen Hopkins

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Elizabeth Goudge

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

Elizabeth George

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

Elizabeth George

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Elizabeth Gilbert

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

Elaine Paige

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Jimmy Fallon

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

Joel Osteen

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Joel Osteen

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

Joel Osteen

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use

Joel Osteen

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

Joel Osteen

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Joe Biden

When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."

Joan Armatrading

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

Louise Hay

My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy.

Louise Hay

I trust Life. I know it brings me everything that I need at the perfect time and in the perfect way.

Louise Hay

I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health

Louise Hay

Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.

Louise Hay

I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.

Louise Hay

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.