Age Quote by Charles Spurgeon

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now…

— Oscar Wilde

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

— Oscar Wilde

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

— Charles M. Schwab

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

— Ellen Hopkins

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

— Oscar Wilde

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

— Sterling W Sill

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

— Bliss Carman

I wonder how many people reflect on how their own and society's perception of perfection induces feelings of deficiency in those who don't fit…

— Ulrika Jonsson

There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have…

— Francis Bacon

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it…

— Bliss Carman

Hardheaded perfectionist sadly lives in his expectations. While open-minded realist happily lives...

— Milana May