Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Bartz

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

Charles Darwin

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Eckhart Tolle

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Brett Hoebel

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Bernie Siegel

We have to create perfection through love

Boyd Rice

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Billy Childish

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Brother Lawrence

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

Edmund Husserl

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Bertrand Russell

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Ben Fountain

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

C. S. Lewis

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

Elizabeth Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Albert Einstein

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Adam Clarke

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Allen Tate

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Abraham Maslow

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Annie Dillard

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

Dora Russell

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Colleen McCullough

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Colleen Hoover

Imperfections define perfection