Perfection Quotes

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Done is better than perfect.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

A finished person is a boring person.

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Love is the bond of perfection.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

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

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Perfection is the child of time.

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

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

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

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.