Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

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.