Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Perceiving myself through others’ ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commitment [to be a poet].”
—Naomi Clark (b. 1932)

“There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)