Perfection Quotes
2101 Perfection quotes by 1319 unique authors
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The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
— George MacDonald
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I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful.…
— Elliott Smith
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we…
— Hermann Weyl
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It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.
— Subir Chowdhury
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The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.
— Gordon Ramsay
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In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
— Alexander Wang
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The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection.…
— Rachel Cohn
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God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his…
— D. A. Carson
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She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten…
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe…
— Olivia Wilde
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If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of…
— Jason Derulo
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Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.
— Matthew Good
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The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time
— Kevin Flynn
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In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we…
— T. Thorn Coyle
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Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect.…
— Gelsey Kirkland
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Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off…
— Thom Browne
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The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day,…
— Robin Crow
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Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.
— Eike Batista
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More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature…
— Georg Cantor
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