Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Carrel

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Richard G. Scott

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Bret Michaels

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Bob Ehrlich

I'm a competitive person.

Bob Edwards

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Dylan

Never make it perfect.

Billy Childish

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Billy Corgan

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

Boy George

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

Bonnie Blair

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Bonnie Blair

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

Brie Larson

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.

Brigham Young

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

Brian Regan

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

Brendon Burchard

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Brian Tracy

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.