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)

“Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“Swans in the winter air
A white perfection have,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)