Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Scovel Shinn

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

George Eliot

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Gottfried Leibniz

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

Gottfried Leibniz

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Gottfried Leibniz

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

Jacques Barzun

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Iyanla Vanzant

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

Iyanla Vanzant

Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Jeaniene Frost

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

Jerry Moran

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Jeff Bridges

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

Jeff Bridges

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

Georges Braque

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

George Zimmerman

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

George Whitefield

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

George Will

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

George Sand

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

George S. Patton

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

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.

Jesse Metcalfe

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

Jesse Jackson

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Jennifer Lopez

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Jackie Stewart

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

Christopher Lasch

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Christopher Hitchens

It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.