Perfection Quotes - Page 10

• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Each Day, Lasts

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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Magic, Singers

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Soul

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• Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Excellence, Literature

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• All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Possible And Impossible, Achieving The Impossible

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Can Do

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Form, Highest

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Daughter, Heart, Oxygen

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Age

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Beautiful, Eye, Painting

  "French paintings from the Chrysler Museum". Book by Jefferson C. Harrison, Chrysler Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), p.45, 1986.

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• And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late – not now, not ever – for you to pursue your passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

  Debbi Fields

  Perseverance, Stars, Passion

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• To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

  Marshall Field

  Errors, Requirements, Way

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• We have to create perfection through love

  Bernie Siegel

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• The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Religious, Loss, Men

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

  Yuna

  Skills, Goal, Musical

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• Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.

  Julie Powell

  Journey, Stronger, Recognition

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• Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.

  Carrie Jones

  Crazy, Thinking, Perfect

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.174, A&C Black

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• Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Angel, Giving, Anomalies

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• Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Waiting, Teach

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.167, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Heart, Soul

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• I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

  Ansel Adams

  Men, Self, Life And Death

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• I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

  Jim Lampley

  Mean, Years, World

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• Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
  As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection,
  the word blossoms.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Degrees, Lasts

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, World, Imaging

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