Famous Quotes & Sayings

Og Mandino

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

Norman O. Brown

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.

Ornette Coleman

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Orison Swett Marden

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

Olivia Hussey

Have the confidence to be your own person.

Olivia De Havilland

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

Oliver Sacks

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

O. Henry

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Octavia Butler

The big talent is persistence.

Novala Takemoto

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

Melinda Clarke

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Mason Cooley

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Mary Kay Ash

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Mary Augusta Ward

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Martin Winterkorn

It's important to see things in perspective. Automobile traffic is responsible for only 12 percent of total CO2 emissions. One should be able to point this out without being accused of changing the subject.

Michael Gove

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Michael Chabon

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Michael Chabon

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Michael Arndt

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Mia Wasikowska

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Menander

He who labors diligently need never despair.

Mencius

All things are complete within ourselves.

Mencius

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

Melody Beattie

Perspective will come in retrospect.

Michelle Williams

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

Michel Foucault

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Michael Josephson

I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don’t expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.

Michael Josephson

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.