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Perfection can never be attained by work.

Swami Vivekananda

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Swami Vivekananda
Indian - Priest
January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Theodore Martin

Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

Roger Bacon

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

Ibn Battuta

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

Homer

What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

Albert Pike

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Theodore Martin

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Anna Held

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Georges St-Pierre

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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