Top 100 The Perfection Quotes
#1. I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
Taylor Swift
#2. Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The perfection of mathematical beauty is such ... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
#4. The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.
Confucius
#5. The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Mazo De La Roche
#6. If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus
#7. The morning sun danced on her hair, transforming the brown to gold and reddish glints. An errant sunbeam angled over her face, dusting her long lashes with light, accentuating the perfection of her nose, her cheekbones, and the beauty of her complexion.
Karen Ranney
#8. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#9. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
Max Muller
#10. At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Only LEFT and RIGHT hand can hold each other and walk together ... Only RIGHTs are enough to say bye.
Nobody is perfect in the world, if you Love the perfection of his/her imperfections then LOVE exists.
Anuj Tiwari
#12. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.
Charles Dickens
#13. St. Paul is not yet the man he would be, which he must be. But he, and all they who with him believe that the perfection of Christ is the sole worthy effort of a man's life, are in the region, though not yet at the centre, of perfection.
George MacDonald
#14. Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.
Jerry Bridges
#15. All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
William Shakespeare
#16. Will and Love practiced
to invoke her Majesty Kundalini
In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses
The perfection of Union is Silence
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#18. Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
Radhanath Swami
#19. Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.
Charles Caleb Colton
#20. Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
#21. My whole body tenses from the burst of pain that ripples through me as he pushes inside of me, but the perfection of the way we fit together makes the pain a mere inconvenience.
Colleen Hoover
#22. It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that's what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.
Chuck Wendig
#24. Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
Byron Katie
#25. The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#26. The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
#27. We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#28. It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos- Weston Michel
Rachel Van Dyken
#29. I wasn't as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.
What happened?
Everything ends. And it's how they end that leaves the lasting effect.
Zia Haider Rahman
#30. I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
#31. Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection.
Peter Monn
#32. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#33. Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
Rumi
#34. He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
Benjamin Whichcote
#35. Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
#36. Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.
Rachel Van Dyken
#37. Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
Agatha Christie
#38. In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.
Ken Follett
#39. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.
Oliver Bowden
#40. Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. As you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
Richard Carlson
#42. You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.
Drew Barrymore
#43. Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.
Daniel Xiao Wang
#44. To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.
Victor Hugo
#45. According to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets'
owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.
Stanislaw Lem
#46. Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.( ... )
No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can never be
so, for this is an imperfect universe. The perfection isn't here,
it is in the worlds beyond, and this is what we are trying to reach.
Harold Klemp
#47. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time. The
Eckhart Tolle
#48. It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
Luc De Clapiers
#49. I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.
James Joyce
#51. All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#52. The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
Leigh Hunt
#53. Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.
Billy Graham
#54. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it.
'Perfection
Steve Copland
#55. Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.
Ka Chinery
#56. What impressess me is that one bug... error... glitch.... just ruin the perfection of myself.
Deyth Banger
#57. The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#58. If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.
Tom Turner
#59. I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
Charles Lindbergh
#60. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#61. Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
James Cash Penney
#63. Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?
Agatha Christie
#64. It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether.
Hanna Arendt
#65. Asana has two facets, pose and repose. Pose is the artistic assumption of a position. 'Reposing in the pose' means finding the perfection of a pose and maintaining it, reflecting in it with penetration of the intelligence and with dedication.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#66. The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.
Robert Lawlor
#67. The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
Marcus Aurelius
#68. There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
Lester Levenson
#70. Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
Alice Walker
#71. Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.
Edward T. Welch
#72. Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.
Clive Barker
#73. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
#74. A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
art of persuading.
Blaise Pascal
#75. What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.
Frans Lanting
#76. Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
Andre Agassi
#77. That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
#78. It is clear to you, I know, Lucilius, that no one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable.
Seneca.
#79. By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and the perfection of its truths - Humanity could be rather messy in comparison.
Brenda Maddox
#80. Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#81. To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Jose Bergamin
#82. How could you bear to refuse it?" Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley's hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven's hand. "My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering," Seven replied.
Kirsten Beyer
#83. Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
John Stott
#84. The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
#85. High demands and expectations without skill development, encouragement or the feeling of a "win" will lead to resentment. Demanding perfection is exhausting on the part of the person making the demands and on the person of whom the perfection is demanded.
Daniel Bates
#86. The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
George Santayana
#87. The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.
Igor Stravinsky
#88. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.
D.S. Mixell
#89. A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
Walther Rathenau
#90. The true end of life is not mere existence, not pleasure, not fame, not wealth. The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
David O. McKay
#91. To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#92. The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever.
Jessica Gadziala
#93. Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.
Albert Einstein
#96. I know I'm the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.
Cassandra Giovanni
#97. Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.
Leo Szilard
#98. It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
Luc De Clapiers
#99. Never be satisfied with where you are in the area of spiritual growth. Cultivate an insatiability for more of God by examining your weaknesses, beholding the perfection of Christ, and finding good examples of strengths you want to develop.
Matt Chandler
#100. 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
