Perfection Quotes - Page 7

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

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.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.