Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Joseph Addison

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Jose Saramago

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Jonathan Tropper

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Kesha

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Jonathan Sacks

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Napoleon Hill

Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Luke Bryan

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Ludacris

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Frank Luntz

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Olivia De Havilland

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

O. Henry

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Novalis

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.