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• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Fear, Inspirational, Perfection

  Tags in Advance, Blood

• Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

  John Updike

  Topics in Perfection

• You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. — Jean Valjean —

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Perfection, Suffering

  Tags in Mortality

• Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn’t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

  Richard Joseph Daley

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Government, Look

• Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Sin, Capable, Own, Capacity

• Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Moment, Brilliant, Little

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Perfection

• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

  Morris West

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Despair

• Ballet’s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

  Shana Alexander

  Topics in Perfection

• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  John Ruskin

  Topics in Art, Perfection, Work

• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Topics in Perfection

• Done is better than perfect.

  Scott Allen

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Completion

• Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  Angelique Arnauld

  Topics in Perfection

• So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

  Beatrice Potter Webb

  Topics in Perfection

• His only fault is that he has no fault.

  Pliny the Younger

  Topics in Perfection

• Perfection is out of the question.

  Anne Archer

  Topics in Perfection

• If I’d been a housemaid I’d have been the best in Australia – I couldn’t help it. It’s got to be perfection for me.

  Nellie Melba

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Australia

• Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

  Salvador Dalí

  Topics in Fear, Perfection, Success

  Tags in Reach

• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Augustine of Hippo

  Topics in Perfection

  Tags in Man

• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  Joseph Priestley

  Topics in Age, Life, Perfection

  Tags in Advertising, Disillusionment, Living