Perfection Quotes
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We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
George Washington
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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Thomas Carlyle
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
William Faulkner
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The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
John Calvin
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I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
Betsy Rawls
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Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
Elias Hasket Derby
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There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
Victor Hugo
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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
Max Lerner
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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Perfection is the child of time…
Joseph Hall
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
William Howard Taft
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Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.
Cecil O. Samuelson
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Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
Court McGee
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If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
Candace Wheeler
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I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.
Mila Kunis
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
Seth Godin
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe