Top 34 Aim For Perfection Quotes
#1. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.
Eike Batista
#2. Don't aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes. 31.
Matt Haig
#3. When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
Geoffrey Fisher
#4. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.
Kerry Patterson
#5. I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
Kate Bush
#6. You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.
Tim Relf
#7. 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.
Orison Swett Marden
#8. Stanford professor Jennifer Aaker's work shows that setting obtainable goals is key to happiness. Instead of perfection, we should aim for sustainable and fulfilling.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.
Pawan Mishra
#10. I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,
Mike Cooley
#11. The yogic scriptures paint a picture of perfection, and perfection can be your aim, but I can tell you sad stories about myself and others who have entered into a state of premature holiness with unpleasant consequences.
Gudjon Bergmann
#13. 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.
W. Somerset Maugham
#14. Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
Frederick William Robertson
#15. Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
John Dewey
#16. If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
#18. It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether.
Hanna Arendt
#19. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
Bayard Taylor
#20. Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.
Behdad Sami
#21. He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
Ivor Cutler
#23. The aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form ... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection.
Maximus The Confessor
#24. When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing.
Justin Rosenstein
#25. Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
Lisa Genova
#26. No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.
Atul Gawande
#27. The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Oscar Wilde
#28. If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.
J.R.D. Tata
#29. The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
Gichin Funakoshi
#30. I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Jim Walton
#31. Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
J.R.D. Tata
#32. A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
Heidi Julavits
#33. God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.
Jocelyn Gibb
#34. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
Harold Bloom