“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.” MenShowsHandsThreeFourAmbitionPerfectionRevengeVillainHonorablePersecutionEarnestScoundrelsRespectabilityHonorable ManProbity Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.” ChristianSufferingThreePrayingPerfectionThree Things Author:Anthony Mary Claret
“I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.” GivingSometimesHardSuccessThreeHoursPracticeDemandSixDeterminationPerfectionConcerts Author:Nina Simone
“What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.” MenLyingThreeNextSportsRoomsPerfectionGolfLifetimeConvincedImprovementLike MeBlissFiftyFortyNervesSwingsDevoteeRoamingCarvingRoom For Improvement Author:John Updike
“Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.” WorldMeanEndsSelfCharacterSpiritualThreeStepsGreaterHigherDegreesPerfectionPerseveranceSelf ConfidencePursuitThanksAttainmentAcquisitionMagnanimity Author:Rudolf Steiner
“You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man with the biggest arm. At the man, with the greatest charm, the man in Chicago who will do harm to the guy three doors down. Whatcha gonna do, when you know who? How ya gonna deal, with the man of steel? How ya gonna react to Sonnen's attack?” KnowsMenGuyThreeDealsAttentionDoorsHe ManArmsReflectionPerfectionHarmCharmChicagoSteel Author:Chael Sonnen
“We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.” YearsGirlThreeFashionPerfectionSexualityMagazinesJailThree YearsEpitomeFashion Magazines Author:Hugh Laurie
“The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.” LoveSelfThreePleasureLordSeeingEventsDivineWillingAll ThingsPerfectionAbsenceServantBelovedSubmissionDecreeSoundnessBeing Content Author:Ibn Ata Allah
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.” WorldWantNeedsImportantMatterEnoughHandsRememberLife IsPassionThreeGoalPerfectPossibilityColorPerfectionNo Matter WhatPassionateWhat You WantPersistenceGrayMediocrity Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character” CharacterThreeStepsHigherPerfectionPursuit Book:Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment Source: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
“I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.” ShouldMadeHardTodayThreeHoursAchieveRegretPerfectionShould HaveAnnoyingSurprisingPresentingProgrammes Author:Evan Davis
“There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.” EndsStatesThreeMiddlePerfectionCatholicSaintTemptationCharmSweetnessContestsFullnessCatholic Saint Author:Pope Gregory I