Motivational Quotes

Perfection

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

- Tina Fey

Best Quotes about Perfection

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

Augustine, St.

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

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

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

Burk Hudson

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

Fisher, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Stephens, James

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

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Perfection is the child of time.

Hall, Joseph

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

Orwell, George

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

Updike, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Michelle Burford

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Salvador Dali

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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Evert, Chris

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

Dali, Salvador

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

Proverb, English

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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

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It is no crime not to be perfect

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Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

Yahl, J.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Arnauld, Angelique

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.

Weber, C. J.

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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 pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Will, George F.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.