Plenty of perfection quotes

January 31, 2009

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
~perfection quotes by Stanley J. Randall

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
~inspirational sayings about Perfection quotes by Stanley J. Randall

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~perfection quotes by Matthew Arnold

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.
~famous quotes about History by Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~perfection sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
~perfection quotes by William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605

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procrastination quotes & quotations

January 31, 2009

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
~procrastination quotes by Scottish Proverb

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
~famous quotes about Procrastination by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Keep a sharp eye on that devil, procrastination, waiting for his chance to lure you to the easy chair, to gossip, to dawdling, and the TV � which is mostly a literature of illiterate � the amusement of non-thinkers.
~procrastination sayings by

If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.
~procrastination quotes by Author Unknown

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
~inspirational sayings about Procrastination quotes by Vincent T. Foss

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
~procrastination quotes by Edward Young

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New Year Quotations

December 17, 2008

The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!  ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850<!–, In Memoriam A.H.H. 106; CTO–>

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.  This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.  ~P.J. O’Rourke

Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

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Quotations about Shopping

December 17, 2008


We used to build civilizations.  Now we build shopping malls.  ~Bill Bryson


I like my money right where I can see it – hanging in my closet.  ~From the television show Sex and the City

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.  ~Franklin P. Jones

I love to go shopping.  I love to freak out salespeople.  They ask me if they can help me, and I say, “Have you got anything I’d like?”  Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, “Extra medium.”  ~Steven Wright

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.  ~Erma Bombeck

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line.  ~Ann Landers

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Quotations about Goals

December 2, 2008

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.  ~Charles DeLint


Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~Arnold H. Glasow

A deadline is negative inspiration.  Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.  ~Rita Mae Brown

I love deadlines.  I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.  ~Douglas Adams

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session  (Thanks, Paul)

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson

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Quotations about Friendship

December 2, 2008

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.  ~Pam Brown

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.  ~George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.  ~Adabella Radici

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.  A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.  ~Samuel Johnson

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Quotations about Brotherhood and Unity

November 21, 2008

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.  ~Alexander the Great

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.  ~Bahá’u'lláh

I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.  ~Daniel D. Mich

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.  ~Booker T. Washington

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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Quotations about Helping and Making a Difference

November 21, 2008

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.  ~Norman Lear


Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.  ~Author Unknown

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.  ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)

I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.  ~Edward Everett Hale

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.  ~Sydney Smith

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.  ~Edmund Burke

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Famous Life Quotes

November 15, 2008

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
~Author : Mary Astor Inspirational Sayings

The art of love … is largely the art of persistence.
~Author : Albert Ellis Nice Quotes

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.
~Author : P B Medawar Great Sayings

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
~Author : Edith Sitwell Meaningful Sayings

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Wise Quotes

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
~Author : Alfred Lord Tennyson Motivational Sayings

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Just Famous Quotes

November 15, 2008

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
~Author : Learned Hand Famous Quotes

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
~Author : Joe Lewis Inspirational Sayings

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
~Author : Dan Rather Nice Quotes

What you are is God’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to God.
~Author : Kelly Jeppesen Great Sayings

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
~Author : Anne Morrow Lindbergh Meaningful Sayings

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
~Author : Rick Moranis Wise Quotes

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