Exact Quotes

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ~  Amelia Earhart

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ~ Plutarch

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly. ~ Harold Ross

Exactness is the sublimity of fools. ~  William Cowper

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ~ Eugene Delacroix

I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. ~ James Rhinehart

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ G.k Chesterton

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.~ Edmund

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. Hart Pomerantz

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.~ Lauren Bacall

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ~ Stephen B Leacock

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.Tallulah Bankhead

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.~ H.Jackson Brown Jr.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.~ Laurie Halse

People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old Ones.~Kettering, Charles F.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be — whether they will admit that or not.~ Earl Nightingale

Politics is not an exact science. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ~  Francis Bacon

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.~ Edward Simmons

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.~ Heraclitus

The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; no one can tell exactly what’s inside.~ Yiddish Proverb

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ~ Colin Wilson

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life. ~ Andre Maurois

The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away.~ Senegalese Proverb

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. ~ BunkerHunt

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.~ Tobin Webster

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.~ Paramahansa Yogananda

We are exactly where we have chosen to be. ~ Vernon Howard

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.~ Antony Robbins

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.~ Brian Tracy

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. ~ Bertrand Russell

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