Motivational Quotes

Perfection

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

- Randall, Stanely J.

Best Quotes about Perfection

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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

Updike, John

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

Yahl, J.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Scott Berkun

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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Horney, Karen

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

Epictetus

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

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To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.

Monica Fairview

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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Stephens, James

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Will, George F.

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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

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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Anna Quindlen

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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.

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

Fisher, Geoffrey F.

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

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Evert, Chris

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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

Proverb, English

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

Wasiman, Friedrich

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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

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

Dali, Salvador

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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

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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

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

Randall, Stanely J.

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It is no crime not to be perfect

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Salvador Dali

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Perfection is the child of time.

Hall, Joseph

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

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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.

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

Tina Fey

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

Augustine, St.

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

Heston, Charlton

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

Bible

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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.

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Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.

Weber, C. J.

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Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Arnauld, Angelique

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

Horton, Doug

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