Quotes for Perfection

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Albert Pike

Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.

Marjorie Liu

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

David A. Bednar

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

David A. Bednar

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Thomas Carlyle

It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

Maimonides

You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

Karen Salmansohn

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Nicolas Cage

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Leonardo da Vinci

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

Cote de Pablo

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Steve Jobs

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

John Piper

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Jon Landau