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[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
- Michelle Burford
Perfection Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Perfection

1.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2.
The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

3.
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

4.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
Stephens, James

5.
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Wasiman, Friedrich

6.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Horney, Karen

7.
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Evert, Chris

8.
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.

9.
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Michelle Burford

10.
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Updike, John

11.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Maugham, W. Somerset

12.
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

13.
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson

14.
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

15.
Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Bible

16.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

17.
No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
Proverb, English

18.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri

19.
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

20.
Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
Dali, Salvador

21.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
Hazlitt, William

22.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.
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

24.
You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.
Tina Fey

25.
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.
Weber, C. J.

26.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Corneille, Pierre

27.
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

28.
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
Maugham, W. Somerset

29.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
Dr. David M. Burns

30.
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

31.
No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

32.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
Shaw, George Bernard

33.
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.

34.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus

35.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
Will, George F.

36.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Billings, Josh

37.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Heston, Charlton

38.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

39.
Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
Dyer, Wayne

40.
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

41.
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isàthe higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold

42.
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

43.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

44.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine, St.

45.
To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.
Monica Fairview

46.
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Horton, Doug

47.
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

48.
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
Yahl, J.

49.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Delacroix, Eugene

50.
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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