Perfection Quotes - page 34

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacythe strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men. A weird life it is to be living always in somebody elses imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could become real. (Thomas Merton)
The agitator who preaches hatred and practices slander and untruthfulness, and the visionary who promises perfection and accomplishes only destruction, are the worst enemies of reform; and the man of great wealth who accumulates and uses his wealth without regard to ethical standards, who profits by and breeds corruption, and robs and swindles others, is the very worst enemy of property, the very worst enemy of conservatism, the very worst enemy of those "business interests” that only too often regard him with mean admiration and heatedly endeavor to shield him from the consequences of his iniquity. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
Precisely the way on which the species reaches its perfection, every individual human being (one earlier, one later) must have traversed, too. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Indwelling in every dewdrop as in the innumerable host of heaven, in the humblest flower and in the mind of man, he found the living spirit of God, setting forth the Divine glory, making the Divine perfection and inspiring with the Divine love. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
When you say that if I deny, that the operations of seeing, hearing, attending, wishing, &c., can be ascribed to God, or that they exist in him in any eminent fashion, you do not know what sort of God mine is ; I suspect that you believe there is no greater perfection than such as can be explained by the aforesaid attributes. I am not astonished ; for I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
I dream of building a community of dancers in a forsaken place amidst nature. A place where nothing exists, except dance. A place where you breathe, eat, sleep, dream, talk, imagine - dance. A place where all the five senses can be refined to perfection. A place where dancers drop negative qualities such as jealousy, small-mindedness, greed and malice to embrace their colleagues as sisters and support each other in their journey towards becoming dancers of merit. A place called Nrityagram. View quote
Protima Bedi
Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life. (Thomas Mann)
Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources. View quote
Harry Browne
Strive for excellence, not perfection. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point. View quote
Mitch Albom
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.) View quote
African Spir
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. View quote
Ali
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. View quote
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whatever it is, it's OK because it's what it is. Don't be looking for perfection. View quote
Mary Tyler Moore
Nobody wants to watch perfection. View quote
Nicolas Cage
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. View quote
Nicolas Cage
All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection, seldom fear the danger of being distracted by comers and goers. (Ernest Dimnet)
Where the writer produces that combination of perfect technique, human interest, and thruth, and can add to it that supreme touch, the perfection of art has been attained. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
He does not confound it with probability; he takes for true what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is only probable. He does more, and here you have a great perfection of the philosopher: when he has no reason by which to judge, he knows how to live in suspension of judgment... The philosophical spirit is, then, a spirit of observation and exactness, which relates everything to true principles... View quote
Denis Diderot
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. View quote
T. H. White