Perfection Quotes
Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.
We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.
A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.