Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words achieve and/or perfection:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Things out of perfection sail
And all their swelling canvas wear....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)