Perfection Quotes

2101 Perfection quotes by 1319 unique authors

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort. — Shunryu Suzuki
All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of… — Walter Russell
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He… — Lin Yutang
Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of… — Walter Russell
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. — Shunryu Suzuki
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. — Marcus Aurelius
Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are… — Sri Chinmoy
What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of… — Sri Chinmoy
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we… — C.S. Lewis
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves… — Oscar Wilde
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our… — Richard Rolle
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry
The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and… — Nachman of Breslov
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. — Owen Feltham
The very pink of perfection. — Oliver Goldsmith
Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. — Marvin J. Ashton
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. — Martin Buber
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. — Marcus Aurelius
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. — Alfred de Musset
However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself -… — John of the Cross
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of… — Jean Paul
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant

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