Top 1200 Progress Not Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

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

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

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

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

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

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

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

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

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

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

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

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

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 self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

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

The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.

I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.

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

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

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

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

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

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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

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

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

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

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

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

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.