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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
~perfection sayings by Harriet Braiker
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
~perfection quotes by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
~famous quotes about Perfection by Confucius, Analects
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
~perfection sayings by Edward Tivnan
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
~perfection sayings by Author Unknown
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~perfection quotes by William Safire
Nothing that is complete breathes.
~famous quotes about Perfection by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
~perfection sayings by Charles Lamb
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
~perfection sayings by Author Unknown
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
~perfection quotes by Red Smith
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~famous quotes about Wise Words by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
~perfection sayings by Goethe
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
~perfection sayings by Truman Capote
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
~good sayings about Hope by Pearl S. Buck
One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.
~perfection quotes by Author Unknown
After all, the main question will be the opener: Hello, are you there? If the reply should turn out to be Yes, hello, we might want to stop there and think about that, for quite a long time.
~motivational quotes about Miscellaneous sayings by Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell, 1974
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
~perfection sayings by John Dryden
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~perfection sayings by Herbert Asquith
How can you eat anything with eyes?
~good sayings about Vegetarianism by Will Kellogg
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
~perfection quotes by Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
~motivational quotes about Dancing sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
~perfection sayings by Leo Aikman
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~perfection sayings by Oscar Wilde
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
~good sayings about Clothing by Virginia Woolf
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
~perfection quotes by Author Unknown
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
~motivational quotes about Books Reading sayings by E.M. Forster
Let every one develop his special talent. Nothing else will keep him permanently happy.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
~perfection sayings by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics.
~good sayings about Sex by Author Unknown
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money
~perfection quotes by Author Unknown
Don't worry about people stealing your ideasIf your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats
~motivational quotes about Boss Day sayings by Howard Aiken
The average person could increase his income 20% by increasing his thinking 1%. One percent of your day is 14 minutes. Is that too much time to spend to increase your income 20%? Every day asks yourself: what one thing can I do today to increase my income? Asking yourself a question impels you to think to find the answer.
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