Top 1200 Moral Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

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

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

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

Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

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

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

When I think of those who were the greatest in their respective sports, it was their drive for perfection that made them the best.

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

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

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.