Goal Is Perfection Quotes

#1. There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Georges St-Pierre

#2. The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Ralph Adams Cram

#3. Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#4. Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#5. I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve

Luke Wood

#6. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Catherine Stock

#7. The goal of the soul is to return to perfection - to attain and maintain a connection to the 'All That Is' and live within this connection. The Serenity Healing Tools will show you the way.

Sharon Ellis

#8. Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.

Ellen J. Barrier

#9. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Brene Brown

#11. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.

Jordan Mak

#12. Perfecting is a journey ... There is no destination called perfection.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#13. Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows ... it knows we can never reach it.

Carrie Jones

#14. Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

John Dewey

#15. Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Lewis Mumford

#16. enough for the Republic - but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here - and in thousands of systems just like this one - brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.

John Jackson Miller

#17. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#18. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.

Dan Inosanto

#19. The goal is progress, not perfection!

Kathy Freston

#20. Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

Susan Jeffers

#21. Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#22. To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#24. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,

Gretchen Rubin

#25. Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Jacqueline Patricks

#26. Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying.

Lindsey Leavitt

#27. In her book The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin writes, "Excellence is working toward an attainable goal that benefits everyone, while perfection comes from a place of great need - usually the need to avoid criticism and gain praise and approval from others.

Myquillyn Smith

#28. My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

Scott Berkun

#29. The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

Alfred Adler

#30. Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.

Jonathan Schell

#31. Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

Ellen Hopkins

#32. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
What is this ideal? It is God.
Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.

Victor Hugo

#33. God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Alfred Adler

#34. Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

Nick Vujicic

#35. We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't "Becoming." It is "I Am." Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.

Stasi Eldredge

#36. Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.

Megan Hart

#37. The goal is not perfection, but rather mastering the art of practice.

Colleen Mariotti