Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Camille Pissarro

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Arthur Conan Doyle

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Charles Spurgeon

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

David Viscott

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

David Brooks

It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Rick Bowers

We accomplished one more of our goals. We just have to perform.

Denny Hamlin

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Denzel Washington

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Denis Waitley

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Denis Waitley

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Charles Darwin

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Bertrand Russell

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Ben Fountain

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

C. S. Lewis

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.