Top 1200 Striving For Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

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

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

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

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

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

The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.

I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

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

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

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

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

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

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

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.

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

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

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

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

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

I have to keep pushing and keep striving, and also keep being me on the field.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.