Perfection Quotes

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

The very pink of perfection.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

All perfection is melancholy.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.