Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Koontz

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Dean Koontz

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Dean Koontz

More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Daniel Goleman

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Bob Dylan

Never make it perfect.

Billy Childish

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Billy Corgan

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

Boy George

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

Bonnie Blair

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Bonnie Blair

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

Brie Larson

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.

Brigham Young

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

Brian Regan

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

Brendon Burchard

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

Bonnie Hammer

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

Bono

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Barry Gibb

I'm very much a family person.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Aphra Behn

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Bruce Lee

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Bruce Lee

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

Brooks Atkinson

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Brooke Shields

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.