Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Louisa May Alcott

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Garrett Hedlund

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Joaquin Miller

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

Helen Mirren

It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

Haruki Murakami

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Jim Rohn

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

Jim Rohn

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Tucker Max

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Wayne Dyer

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Wayne Dyer

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Roger Ebert

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

Whoopi Goldberg

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Saint Augustine

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

Henry Fuseli

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Luc de Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lupita Nyong'o

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

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.

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.