Perfection Quotes

Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.

William Hepworth Thompson

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

Blaise Pascal

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

James Stephens

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

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

Eugene Delacroix

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

John Cheever

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.

Vicomte De Chateaubriand

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Leo Tolstoy

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

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.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Epictetus

This world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Aldous Huxley

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

Stanely J. Randall

Don't demand perfection. But insist on continuous improvement.

Torley

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Samuel Butler

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.

George Orwell

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

Friedrich von Schiller