I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The compass and the square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.