Perfection Quotes

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

T.H. White

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Oscar Wilde

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

Marty Rubin

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Richard Bach

Perfect is a dream that you wake up from and spend forever trying to remember.

Joseph Eastwood

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Gail Carriger

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

Victor Hugo

Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve.

Lorii Myers

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

Dejan Stojanovic

Doing it well now is much better than doing it perfectly later.

Seth Godin

To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Josh Billings

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Karen Horney

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age

Albert Einstein

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

Steve Maraboli

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph De Maistre

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare

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

Geoffrey F. Fisher

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Arthur Miller