Quotes with perfection

  • All mankind Is born for perfection And each shall attain it Will he but follow His nature's duty.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
  • The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
  • When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
  • 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.
  • ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
  • Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  • If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
  • To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bhagavad Gita All mankind
    Is born for perfection
    And each shall attain it
    Will he but follow
    His nature's duty.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • William Law Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • William Somerset Maugham American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Eugene Delacroix Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
    Eugene Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Oscar Wilde As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Einstein Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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