Perfection Quotes

All things are complete within ourselves.

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

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.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

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.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

The perfection of rottenness.

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.

There's no soul in perfection.

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

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Progress is more important than perfection.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

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.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

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.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

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

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

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

The person seeing perfection is the Master.

Perfection seems sterile; It is final, no mystery in it; It's a product of an assembly line.