Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Giuseppe Verdi

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Geraldine Brooks

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Georges St-Pierre

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Harriet Walter

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Herman Melville

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Herman Melville

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Henry David Thoreau

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Henry David Thoreau

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jillian Michaels

Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.

Jessica Lange

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

Jessica Lange

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Jeremy Clarkson

This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

Jennifer Connelly

It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.

Jennifer Connelly

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Jennifer Ellison

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

Jennifer Egan

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Jennifer Egan

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jerry Seinfeld

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

Jeremy Abbott

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Jeff Kinney

The best person I know is Myself.

Jill Flint

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.