Perfection Quotes

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them