Makes Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Company makes my day.

Every human being makes mistakes.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.