Quotes about perfection

"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."

Addison, Joseph on perfection
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on perfection
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"Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Arnauld, Angelique on perfection   

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."

Augustine, St. on perfection
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"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

Beecher, Henry Ward on perfection
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"Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect."

Bible on perfection   

"If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself."

Billings, Josh on perfection   

"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."

Carlyle, Thomas on perfection   

"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."

Channing, William Ellery on perfection   

"Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant."

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De on perfection   

"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."

Chesterfield, Lord on perfection   

"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."

Corneille, Pierre on perfection
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"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on perfection
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"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."

Dante Alighieri on perfection   

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

Delacroix, Eugene on perfection
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"Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it."

Dyer, Wayne on perfection   

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."

Eliot, George on perfection   

"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."

Epictetus on perfection
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"Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose."

Evert, Chris on perfection   

"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on perfection
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"Perfection is the child of time."

Hall, Joseph on perfection   

"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."

Hazlitt, William on perfection   

"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."

Heston, Charlton on perfection   

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."

Horney, Karen on perfection   

"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."

Horton, Doug on perfection   

"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."

Larson, Doug on perfection   

"Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection   

"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."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection   

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

Newman, Cardinal J. on perfection
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals."

Orwell, George on perfection
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Poe, Edgar Allan on perfection
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"No barber shaves so close but another finds his work."

Proverb, English on perfection   

"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."

Randall, Stanely J. on perfection
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"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

Ruskin, John on perfection   

"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."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on perfection   

"Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on perfection   

"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

Shakespeare, William on perfection
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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

Shaw, George Bernard on perfection