Perfection Quotes
2101 Perfection quotes by 1319 unique authors
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Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
— Andy Hargreaves
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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
— Zhuangzi
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No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
— Lisa Genova
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Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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There is only one way by which I can get right with God, and that is through the death of Jesus Christ. I must get…
— Oswald Chambers
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The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but…
— Nuno Oliveira
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One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in…
— Sengcan
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That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.
— Rafe Esquith
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Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection…
— Pope John Paul II
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Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense…
— Anton Corbijn
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Nobody wants to watch perfection.
— Nicolas Cage
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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply…
— Pema Chodron
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Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was…
— Marianne Williamson
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The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.
— Unknown Author
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If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
— Richard Bach
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
— Ann Voskamp
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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,…
— Samuel Richardson
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I feel very lucky for that gift that I was given but it´s been quite tough to deal with sometimes too. When you are blessed…
— Sarah Brightman
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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
— Vince Lombardi
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A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend.…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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