Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plotinus

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Plutarch

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Plutarch

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Plutarch

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Pierce Brosnan

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

Pico Iyer

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Phillip Lim

I'm not such a public person.

Phillips Brooks

Preaching is truth through personality.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Nathaniel Branden

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

Julie Salamon

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

Julian Fellowes

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

Judy Martz

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

Judy Woodruff

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Joyce Meyer

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life...

Joyce Meyer

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Joyce Meyer

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

Maria Mitchell

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Maria Shriver

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

Maria Shriver

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Patrick Fugit

I'm not a very fast-paced person.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Oscar Pistorius

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Peter Greenaway

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

Pauline Kael

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Pauline Kael

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

Pauline Kael

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.