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Perfection Quotes

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ~Donald Miller

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. ~Bob Marley

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He who seeks perfection in a friend will stay without friends. ~Yiddish Proverb

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business. ~Michael J. Fox

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. ~Leo Tolstoy

Confidence doesn’t come from thinking you’re perfect or flawless. That’s arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture. ~Jeanette Walls

Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. ~Jeannette Walls

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. ~Colum McCann

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~Alden Nowlan

To attempt finding a perfect person to fall in love with is like trying to catch your own shadow. Accept the imperfect person you have and learn to see and appreciate that person perfectly everyday, because both of you are not perfect yet. ~GADEL

Perfect people aren’t real, real people aren’t perfect. So either love people for their flaws or hate them because they’re real. ~Anonymous

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means you’ve decided to live your life in spite of all its imperfections. ~Emily Turek

Best Quotes by Famous People

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. –Samuel Johnson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Alva Edison

give me a museum and i'll fill itA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Seneca

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning – Aristotle Onassis

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M.K. Gandhi

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.- Mark Twain

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say i- Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. – G.B. Shaw

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes

‘The time is always right to do right’ – “The 100 Best Things Ever Said by Men” in South Africa’s Men’s Health magazine,

‘After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.’

‘Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?’

‘For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.’

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes

Teen Love Quotes For Facebook

“3 things I want in a relationship: eyes that won’t cry, lips than won’t lie, and love that won’t die.” – Wiz Khalifa

“I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.” – Drake

“Seven days without love makes one weak.” – Drake

“Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.” – Author Unknown

“I want a real relationship; not a facebook one.” – Author Unknown

“The hardest thing about realizing you don’t love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did.” – Author Unknown

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.” – Marilyn Monroe

teen love quotes for Facebook“If two past lovers can remain friends, it’s either they are still in love, or never were.” – Author Unknown

“Today I caught myself smiling for no reason…then I realized I was thinking about you.” – Author Unknown

“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.” – Author Unknown

“I just want you that’s it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you.” – Sara Quin

“Never date someone who still has feelings for their ex, it’s just a perfect scenario for your heart to get broken.” – Author Unknown

“You may be far away, but it does not change the way I look at you.” – Author Unknown

“If you fight like a married couple, talk like best friends, flirt like first loves, and protect each other like siblings it’s meant to be.” – Author Unknown

“Sometimes the best revenge is to smile, move on, and do nothing.” – Author Unknown

“Don’t leave someone just because you argue a lot. Arguing is the key to fixing all of your problems and it shows that you both actually care.” – Author Unknown

Marie Curie Quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Marie Curie QuotesI have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.