A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
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.
By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.