Perfection Quotes
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. (Quote by - Dr. David M. Burns)
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. (Quote by - Carlos Fuentes)
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
The "C" students run the world. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. (Quote by - Gaelic proverb)
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. (Quote by - Sidney Poitier)
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. (Quote by - Laurell K. Hamilton)
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis." (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. (Quote by - Edward Bach)
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. (Quote by - Ali ibn Abi Talib)
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
My ambition is peace and perfection. (Quote by - DeForest Kelley)
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. (Quote by - Alfred de Musset)
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. (Quote by - Alfred)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Perfection itself is imperfection. (Quote by - Vladimir Horowitz)
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. (Quote by - Charles Buck)
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. (Quote by - Neil Diamond)
Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. (Quote by - Epictetus)
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. (Quote by - Phil Rizzuto)
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops. (Quote by - William Shawn)
Style is the perfection of a point of view. (Quote by - Richard Eberhart)
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. (Quote by - Henry van Dyke)
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. (Quote by - Wolfgang Hildesheimer)
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. (Quote by - William Safire)
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel )
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. (Quote by - James Stephens)
Perfection is out of the question. (Quote by - Anne Archer)
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. (Quote by - Dante)
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. (Quote by - Joyce Maynard)
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. (Quote by - Armstrong Williams)
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. (Quote by - Gottfried Leibniz)
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. (Quote by - Reverend Oliver G. Wilson)
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. (Quote by - Pamela Hansford Johnson)
When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. (Quote by - Geoffrey F. Fisher)
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. (Quote by - John Abercrombie)
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. (Quote by - Josef Skvorecky)
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. (Quote by - Maimonides)
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. (Quote by - Robert Hillyer)
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. (Quote by - Hugh Kingsmill)
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. (Quote by - Niklaus Wirth)
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. (Quote by - Richard Whately)
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. (Quote by - William Law)
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? (Quote by - Richard Brautigan)
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. (Quote by - Edith Schaeffer)
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly (Quote by - Sam Keen quotes)
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes (Quote by - Haridas Chaudhuri)
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. (Quote by - Samuel McChord Crothers)
In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. (Quote by - Jessie Matthews)
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. (Quote by - Ned Rorem)
I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death. (Quote by - Don Beaupre)
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. (Quote by - George F. Will)
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection. (Quote by - Julianne Moore)
Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts. (Quote by - Melinda M. Marshall)
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint Exupery)
He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master. (Quote by - William Cavendish)
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. (Quote by - William Falconer)
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. (Quote by - Dr. David M. Burns)
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Quote by - Michael J. Fox)
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful. (Quote by - Chuck Mangione)
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. (Quote by - Aaron Sorkin)
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. (Quote by - Goethe)
Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart. (Quote by - Kelly Millar)
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. (Quote by - Owen Feltham)
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. (Quote by - Ben Okri)
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. (Quote by - Debra Messing)
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. (Quote by - Paul von Hindenburg)
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. (Quote by - Stanley J. Randall)
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. (Quote by - Emile Zola)
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. (Quote by - Sri Chinmoy)
Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. (Quote by - Ludwig van Beethoven)
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. (Quote by - Eugene Herrigel)
Nothing that is complete breathes. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. (Quote by - John Millington Synge)
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. (Quote by - Alfred Adler )
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. (Quote by - Aiden Wilson Tozer)
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. (Quote by - Agnes Martin)
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human I'm uncomfortable around gods. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. (Quote by - William Hurt)
Be intent on the perfection of the present day. (Quote by - William Law)
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. (Quote by - Henry Fuseli)
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. (Quote by - Rosalynn Carter)
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. (Quote by - Edna O'Brien)
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. (Quote by - Douglas Horton)
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. (Quote by - Michelle Burford)
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. (Quote by - William Ames)
It is absurd to look for perfection. (Quote by - Camille Pissarro)
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. (Quote by - Nellie Melba)
A beautiful thing is never perfect. (Quote by - Proverb)
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. (Quote by - Confucius)
A finished person is a boring person. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. (Quote by - Kim Collins)
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. (Quote by - Mary Baker Eddy)
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. (Quote by - Beatrice Potter Webb)
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. (Quote by - Simon Greenleaf)
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day. (Quote by - Polish proverb)
You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor! (Quote by - Abe Lemons)
What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. (Quote by - Christopher Fry)
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. (Quote by - Morris West)
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. (Quote by - Mark Helprin)
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring. (Quote by - John Eliot)
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. (Quote by - Pen Densham)
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. (Quote by - Elihu Root)
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress. (Quote by - M. W. Larmour)
But my favorite would be, Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. (Quote by - Michaelangelo)
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism. (Quote by - John Berger)
Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? (Quote by - Alison Bechdel)
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. (Quote by - Benjamin Haydon)
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection. (Quote by - Kathy Mattea)
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. (Quote by - Celine Dion)
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project. (Quote by - Harry Knowles)
Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams. (Quote by - Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs)
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. (Quote by - Douglas Sirk )
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. (Quote by - Charlton Heston)
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. (Quote by - Maurice Ravel)
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. (Quote by - Henri Coanda)
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. (Quote by - Agnetha Faltskog)
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. (Quote by - J. Yahl)
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. (Quote by - St Augustine)
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. (Quote by - Kevyn Aucoin)
I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years. (Quote by - Jim Lampley)
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There is no perfection in humanity. (Quote by - Samuel Montagne)
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. (Quote by - C. Northcote Parkinson)
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler )
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. (Quote by - Buddha)
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection. (Quote by - Adam Jones)
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. (Quote by - Michaelangelo)
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. (Quote by - Ludwig Bemelmans)
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Perfectionism is slow death. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. (Quote by - Adam Smith )
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. (Quote by - John Eliot)
To try to be better is to be better. (Quote by - Charlotte Cushman)
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. (Quote by - Pir Vilayat Khan)
When everything has to be right, something isn't. (Quote by - Stanislaw Lee)
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot. (Quote by - J. Weber)
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. (Quote by - Richard Courant)
Perfection is the child of time. (Quote by - Joseph Hall)
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. (Quote by - Jerry Moran)
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. (Quote by - Albrecht Druer)
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky (Quote by - Buddha)
Love is the bond of perfection. (Quote by - John Winthrop)
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. (Quote by - Robert Kirkman)
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
We're the best team in baseball. But not by much. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. (Quote by - Kathy Mattea)
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. (Quote by - Angelique Arnauld)
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. (Quote by - River Phoenix)
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Quote by - Anne Wilson Schaef)
You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes. (Quote by - Billy Joel)
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The perfection of art is to conceal art. (Quote by - Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. (Quote by - Philip Sidney)
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. (Quote by - Andrew Vachss)
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. (Quote by - Eugene Delacroix)
A good garden may have some weeds. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (Quote by - John Henry Cardinal Newman)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. (Quote by - Richard Rolle)
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection. (Quote by - Mark Crispin Miller)
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. (Quote by - Sir Laurence Olivier)
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! (Quote by - Edmund Husserl)
When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. (Quote by - Bill Lemley)
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. (Quote by - Emile Zola)
Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. (Quote by - David Rockefeller)
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. (Quote by - Louis Auchincloss)
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being. (Quote by - John Updike)
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. (Quote by - Edward Coke)
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. (Quote by - William Ames)
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. (Quote by - Ralph A. Cram)
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? (Quote by - Richard J. Daley)
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Quote by - Harriet Braiker)
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. (Quote by - Letty Cottin Pogrebin)
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. (Quote by - Robert Neville)
We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference. (Quote by - Geraldine Ferraro)
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. (Quote by - Elihu Root)
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. (Quote by - Edsger Dijkstra)
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. (Quote by - Dr. David M. Burns)
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey )
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. (Quote by - Roy Barnes)
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
