Quotes About Perfection

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

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

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.