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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.


Kakuzō Okakura

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VINCE LOMBARDI Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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TARALYNN VIENO DALZIN If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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STEVE MARABOLI The only chance we have [tonight] is if we execute to perfection. They're more mature and stronger, ...
JASON MONTGOMERY The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take th...
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MAX LUCADO The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.
W.B. YEATS Every day, everywhere we are surrounded by positive things, but will you choose to see them?
NABIL N. JAMAL The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to...
C. JOYBELL C. The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work
And if it ...
W.B. YEATS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
KAMI GARCIA Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER If our primary concern is results, we will choose to work only with those who give us good ones.
GREGORY BOYLE When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
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SHANE CLAIBORNE Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.
NIKE THADDEUS There is no perfection only life
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TERRY PRATCHETT Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The only choice that we lack is the choice to choose.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
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GARY F EVANS... If you choose to crawl, so be it. If you choose to stroll, so be it. If you choose to fly, so be it.
ABHISHEK KUMAR Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
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PHILIP T.M Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everyw...
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MARC LEVY I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
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OSCAR WILDE My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE If only…the saddest words in the English language.
KRISTAN HIGGINS To stand on the
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BARACK OBAMA We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deep...
STASI ELDREDGE The future can be different if we choose to make it so.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. It is a lie.
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Of all things, only we
have power to choose that we should die;
nothing else is free
in ...
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