Motivational Quotes

Perfection

[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

- Michelle Burford

Best Quotes about Perfection

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Billings, Josh

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; donÆt limit it.

John Eliot, Ph.D.

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

Scott Berkun

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Augustine, St.

Perfection is the child of time.

Hall, Joseph

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Will, George F.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Hazlitt, William

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

Tina Fey

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.

Weber, C. J.

10.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

11.

It is no crime not to be perfect

12.

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

Yahl, J.

13.

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

15.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Michelle Burford

17.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri

18.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.

Poe, Edgar Allan

19.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

20.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

22.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

23.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Wasiman, Friedrich

24.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Randall, Stanely J.

25.

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

Heston, Charlton

26.

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.

Addison, Joseph

27.

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

Corneille, Pierre

28.

Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Bible

29.

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

30.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isàthe higher achievement.

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Evert, Chris

32.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Newman, Cardinal J.

33.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Fisher, Geoffrey F.

34.

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.

Chesterfield, Lord

35.

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

Updike, John

36.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.

Stephens, James

38.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Horney, Karen

39.

Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

John Eliot, Ph.D.

40.

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.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

Proverb, English

42.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Horton, Doug

43.

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

Yeats, William Butler

44.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

47.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Dr. David M. Burns

48.

Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.

Dali, Salvador

49.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.