Perfection Quotes
If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.
You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
