Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

Swami Vivekananda

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

Swami Vivekananda

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.

Swami Vivekananda

Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)

Swami Vivekananda

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Swami Vivekananda

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

Swami Vivekananda

In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

Rosalynn Carter

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Ron Fournier

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

Ron Fournier

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

Rollo May

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

Rollo May

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

Rumi

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

Rumi

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

Rumi

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Rumi

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Tom Petty

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

Tom Peters

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Tom Peters

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Tom Robbins

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Tom Robbins

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Tom Robbins

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

Tom Ford

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

Tom Ford

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

Todd Duncan

Your direction is a result of your perception.

Steve Jobs

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Steve Case

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

Steve Case

When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.

Steve Case

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

Stephen Potter

Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

Stephen Fry

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Stephen Fry

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Sri Chinmoy

Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.