Perfection Quotes

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

The essence of man is imperfection.

To try to be better is to be better.

I am not strong on perfection.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

We have to create perfection through love

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.