Perfection Quotes - Page 27

• ... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

  Margaret Fuller

  Existence, Mere

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Selfishness, Half

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.719

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• The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Ideas, Knowing, Giving

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• This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Perfect, Toxic

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• I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

  Teresa of Avila

  Gratitude, Sardines, Realizing

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

  Teresa of Avila

  Angel, Earth, Want

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Use, Pleasure, Moderates

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• I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Children, Book, Dark

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.

  B. H. Roberts

  Believe, Passion, Men

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• In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

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• In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Self, Supremacy

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• Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Envy, Faults, Findings

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• Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Appreciation, Eye, Views

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

  Emily Carr

  Shining, Done, Quitting

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.92, D & M Publishers

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• If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

  Francis Atterbury

  God, Delight, Holy

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• We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Tides, Impossible

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• 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

  Philosophy, Keys, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 287, 1895.

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• While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.

  George Combe

  Religious, Animal, Intelligent

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• People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  People, Humanity, May

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

  Temple Grandin

  People, High Standards, Standards

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

  Diane Keaton

  Creativity

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.188, Random House

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• My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Book, Despair, Way

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• Passion drives perfection.

  Rick Warren

  Passion

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.217, Zondervan

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