Perfection Quotes
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.George Will
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.Saint Augustine
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
Perfection is the enemy of the good.Gustave Flaubert
I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad. N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.Psalms 11996
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.Kahlil Gibran
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.Joseph Addison
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.Charles de Gaulle
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.La Bruyere
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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.Dr. David M. Burns
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.Wallace Stevens
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
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.Dr. David M. Burns
Have no fear of perfection - - You will never reach it.Salvador Dali
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.Thomas a Kempis
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.Sidney Poitie
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.Blaise Pascal
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.Bernard Grasset
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.William Faulkne
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.Mary Ross
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.William Law
