Quotes with perfection

Quotes 81 till 98 of 98.

  • Sir Philip Sidney To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Louise Erdrich To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Sidney Poitier We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
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  • Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Agnes Martin 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.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Geoffrey F. Fisher When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
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  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • Benito Mussolini [To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • William Ellery Channing Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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