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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)