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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Sacrifice, Others

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

Change, Often, Improve

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political, Control, Both

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Life, Tomorrow, Important

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain

Opinion, Matters, Insane

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay

Life, Nothing, Complex

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

Love, Time, Looking

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness, Soul, Sincerity

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi

Makes, Practice

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

Live, Someone, Able

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Happiness, God, Everything

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton

Good, Plan, Next

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Basketball, Either

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

Life, Work, Diligence

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

Friendship, Good, Men

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah

Learning, Human, Regret

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao Tzu

Strength, Courage, Fear

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw

Love, Affair, Post

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

Silence, Expression, Scorn

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ

Give, Poor, Heaven

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Future, Society

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

Cannot, Until, Quality

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer

Everything, Universe, Desire

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan

Human, Universe, Ambition

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

Successful, Islam, Person

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty, Truth, Smile

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

Greatest, Children, Hear

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

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