Best perfection & habit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.”

Way Art Desire Teach Habit Art Is Perfection Goddess Dainty

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.”

Should Effort One Thing Habit Higher All Things Perfection Lifts Reaching Application Begets Thoroughness

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“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.”

Thinking Men Enemy Habit Reflection Perfection Profound Civilized Compelled Pernicious

Author:Constantine the Great

“Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.”

Needs Accepting Habit Degrees Perfection Tasks Bars Rely Realistic Assessment Procrastinating Triage

Author:John Perry

“We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.”

Certain Moral Our Lives Habit Activity Perfection Substance Good Habits

Author:Thomas Merton

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Source: My American Journey

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems

“Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.”

Ifs Matter Use Names Language Difficult Church Perfect Lord Our Lives Habit Members Mouths Perfection Vain Curse Reverence Locks Routes Avoiding Foul Swearing Cursing Foul Language

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.”

Thinking Want Giving Years Courses Rooms Habit Perfection Impression Obsession Pretense Orderly Seventeen Inspection Ocd

Book:Impulse

Source: Impulse

“The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.”

Beauty Missing Habit Demand Perfection Satisfaction Hungry Shortcomings

Book:The Sense of Beauty

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.”

Men Heart Persons Hands Hate Existence Mistake Moral Willing He Man Habit Weakness Perfection I Hate Rational Reasonable Smoking Trusted Sober Supremacy

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.”

Littles Self Christ Lord One Thing Willing Needed Habit Crosses Perfection Saint Deny Gods Will Occasions Acquire Our Lord Every Occasion

Author:St. Vincent

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