Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.