Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals. When separated from law and justice, is the worst of all.
Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtueq gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection
Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
The primary purpose of a concert is not perfection in performance but communication.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
If I did not care, I would not dare, chart your imperfections.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Oh, privileged mortal you enjoy lifelong honor and perfect ease!
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest