Perfection Quotes

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.

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

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

My ambition is peace and perfection.

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

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

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

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

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.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

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

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

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

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

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Be content with nothing less than perfection.

I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.