Perfection Quotes
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
Catherine Deneuve
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.
Michelangelo
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
Alexandre Dumas
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
William Shakespeare
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
Saadi
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
Nicolas Malebranche
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I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence.
Bo Ryan
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In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.
Natalie
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
John Locke
Nazareth
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
George Washington
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Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
Marvin J. Ashton
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The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
C. S. Lewis
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
Jane Austen
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
