Perfection Quotes - Page 34

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
  proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Division Of Labor, Mind, Proportion

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• No confession brings perfection.

  Oscar Romero

  Confession

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  36 Copy quote

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Want, Want U

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Divine Power, Divine, Creatures

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.286, University of Notre Dame Pess

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.

  Paula Wall

  Disappointment, Grief, Angel

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jack Kirby

  Style, Storytelling, Type

  Source: www.tcj.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Perfect, Everyday

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gita, Krishna, Imaginary

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.

  Dick Vitale

  Player, Games, Preparation

  12 Copy quote

• I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space.

  Jon Foreman

  War, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

  43 Copy quote

• If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Records, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

  Kate Grenville

  Tyrants, Ideas, Gains

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

  John Perry

  Assessment, Degrees, Tasks

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source