Quotes by Authors - Page 121

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.
John Galsworthy
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Nikolai Gogol
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.
Charles Dickens
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
The waters wear the stones.
Anonymous
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
As an entrepreneur I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well persevere comes from the Latin roots purse as in "money " and sever as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.
Brian Morgan
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.
Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first the lesson afterwards.
Anonymous
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you want your ship to come in you must build a dock.
Anonymous
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Anonymous
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Anonymous
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
Toni Morrison
Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.
Maria Weston Chapman
There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.
Victor Hugo
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.
Geraldine Ferraro
We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.
Sparky Anderson
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Hugh Kingsmill
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.
Hugh Prather
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
Ned Rorem
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Today let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!
Daphne Rose Kingma
We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.
Jerry Ellis
One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.
Pär Lagerkvist
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
John Miller
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus only by hard work risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.
Alan Alda