Perfection Quotes
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.
It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
