Perfection Quotes - Page 15

• Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Moments, Grows

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Perseverance, Rain

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• We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Struggle

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Style

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• The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Light, Doubt, Wipe

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.77, Penguin

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Needs, Goes On

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Empowering, Guilt

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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• Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Excellence, Impossible, Achieve

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• I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete

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• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Character, Age

  "Karl Lagerfeld Smells Like "Fresh, Ironed Linen"". Interview with Emily Dougherty, www.elle.com. March 11, 2014.

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• When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

  Cecelie Berry

  Claims, Young, Knows

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• Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

  Michael Hyatt

  Consistency, Impossible, Consistent

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• As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

  Seth Godin

  Might, Matter, Pursuit

  "No one reads a comic strip because it's drawn well". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Progress is more important than perfection.

  Simon Sinek

  Progress, Important

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2011

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• There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don't think that anymore because it's not healthy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Girl, Sweet, Thinking

  "Wanted: one leading man" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2004.

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• Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

  Doug Marlette

  Compassion, Race, Ease

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• We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting, Progress, Advancement

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• His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

  Blake Crouch

  Halloween, Cutting, Darkness

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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• Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Art, Self

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• Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Mean, Knowing

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• I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Friendship, Men, Perfect

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:181, 1932.

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