Perfection Quotes
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.
So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.
I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.
There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.
Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.
It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.
Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.
Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and again until we recognized our innate perfection.
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.
Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off a little – perfection is really imperfect.
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.
See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.
You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.