William Law Quotes
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Rachel Joyce
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
Nadia Comaneci
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Ram Dass
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
Washed Out
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
Nadia Comaneci
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
Edmonia Lewis
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
Eden Hazard
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
Saint Ignatius
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
Warren Spector
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You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.
Steve Jobs
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
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If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
William Law