Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Ries

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Epictetus

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Emily Carr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Emily Blunt

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Emily Giffin

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

Emily Giffin

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

Ellen Ochoa

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

Sean Hannity

All right, Shep, I want to get some perspective here ...

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Henri Nouwen

Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

Heather Bresch

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

Hesiod

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Herodotus

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Herodotus

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Henry Rollins

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

Helen Oyeyemi

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

Helen Reddy

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Heather Matarazzo

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

Hilary Duff

You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.

Henry Ward Beecher

When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.