Perfection Quotes - Page 52

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.