Perfection Quotes
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
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
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.Sidney Poitie
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
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 Huxley
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.Mary Ross
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".
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.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.Chinese Prove
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.Harriet Braike
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.William Law
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.Logan Pearsall Smith
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.Aristotle
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
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
Strive for excellence, not perfection.H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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.Richard Whately
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
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
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For 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.Lytton Strachey
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
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
