Perfection Quotes

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might....Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents,
potentialities,
and capacities.
Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing.
The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding.
He must find meaningfulness,
self-sufficiency,
effortlessness,
playfulness,
richness,
simplicity,
completion,
necessity,
perfection,
individuality,
beauty,
and truth.

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

There is no shortcut to perfection. All it takes is hard work, and more hard work.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

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

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.

True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

Lamborghini is refinement, luxury and perfection.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.

The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

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.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.