Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Donovan

Self-inflicted wounds, you know. It was all just self-inflicted.

Sathya Baba

The wise are those who know the Self.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization.

Peggy Fleming

It was a look of perfection just like her style.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Orson Scott Card

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Atharva Veda

The Saint has shown me the Path of God; slave Nanak has implanted devotional worship and the Praise of the Lord.

Bob Djurdjevic

The way I would characterize what I saw today is, they're on a slow path of improvement. It's not a sprint.

Baha'u'llah

Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!

Juvenal

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Demi Lovato

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Brie Larson

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

Antonio Porchia

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Shanen Boettcher

We are on a path to be code-complete by the end of 2005.

Major Parker

There is nothing in this world that can ever make me go down that path again.