Perfection Quotes - Page 37

• The Law ... is perfection of reason.

  Edward Coke

  Law, Reason

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• Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

  Lydia Sigourney

  Years, Would Be, Add

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• We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our ideas of futurity are perpetually expanding. Our desires and our hopes, even when modified by our fears, seem to grasp at immensity. This alone would be sufficient to prove the progressiveness of our nature, and that this little earth is but a point from which we start toward a perfection of being.

  Humphry Davy

  Train Of Thought, Ideas, Progress

  "emoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy". Book by John Davy, p. 130, 1836.

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• The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.

  Iamblichus

  Numbers, Special, Limits

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield in "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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• Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Elephants

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Civilization, Long, World

  "Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna". Translated and annotated by Charles Wendell, p. 106,

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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

  Two, Voice, One Day

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.153, Innovations and Information

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• Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

  Angela of Foligno

  God, Knowing, Knowing God

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• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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• The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Judging, Progress, Degrees

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• You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

  John Calipari

  Want, Bowling, Alleys

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• How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-\-\ Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.

  Sivananda

  Encouragement, Goal, Discipline

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• I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Vision, Christ

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Chapter 1, 1670.

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• An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, People, Able

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• There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Parent, Up To You

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• The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Christian, Pain, Struggle

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• Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Choices, Soul

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• Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Want, Want U

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• We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dedication, Goal, Environmental

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Flying

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• People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, People, Progress

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

  Jack Kirby

  Style, Storytelling, Type

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Ocean, Men, Water

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• I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

  Chris Johnson

  Jobs, Sound, Want

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• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House

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