Top 100 Perfection Is Quotes
#1. Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.
Ayn Rand
#2. Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.
Robert Reed
#3. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
#4. Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.
R.L. Griffin
#5. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.
Jordan Mak
#6. Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Perfection is not attainable," he used to say, quoting Vince Lombardi. "But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Kathryn Perez
#9. Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Michelangelo
#10. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.
Elizabeth Scott
#11. I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change
Anthony Kiedis
#12. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Melody Beattie
#13. Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
Swami Vivekananda
#15. The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz
#17. In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.
Guillermo Del Toro
#18. Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.
John Perry
#19. Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is ... Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.
Sanjo Jendayi
#20. All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.
Yarro Rai
#22. Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.
Matthew Good
#23. Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.
Azzedine Alaia
#24. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
Shiv Khera
#25. Perfection is the highest standard for men;
perfection is the only standard for God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone.
Lew Wallace
#27. Always remember ... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless ...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#28. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#29. Mistakes can be fixed. Bad decisions can be undone. Model houses can be rebuilt. And perfection is only a word that makes you feel bad about yourself.
Jessica Brody
#30. I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.
Jonny Wilkinson
#31. Did anybody say anything about being flawless? Perfection is
an absolutely different word, magnificently left hanging for the human being's kind benefit throughout the ages!
J.D. Salinger
#32. My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.
Georges St-Pierre
#33. Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
Carrie Jones
#34. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.
Sandeep Sharma
#35. Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. The height of perfection is mediocrity.
Pitigrilli
#38. People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone.
Farahad Zama
#40. Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
Noelle Scaggs
#41. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
Gelsey Kirkland
#42. Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.
Neale Donald Walsch
#45. 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
#46. Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
Sharon Salzberg
#47. Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
Angela Watson
#48. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
Janelle Monae
#50. Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney
#51. Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.
Rene Russo
#54. Perfection is the absolute right word. And you could never ruin it," she said in a low, calm voice. "Not when it was perfect because of you.
Laura Kaye
#55. The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.
George Soros
#56. 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
#57. The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time
Kevin Flynn
#58. Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.
Vincent Cassel
#59. Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.
Ned Rorem
#60. Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
Paul Travis
#61. Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
Augusten Burroughs
#62. 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
#63. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#65. While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. Perfection is so beautiful and wonderful that even the stone-blind and purblind see it.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#67. The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
Murray N. Rothbard
#68. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Brene Brown
#70. If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#72. To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
Marion Woodman
#73. It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
Luc De Clapiers
#74. Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature ... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
R.D. Laing
#75. Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
Arthur Schopenhauer
#76. Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
H.G.Wells
#77. 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
#78. Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#79. I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just ... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.
Marc Jacobs
#80. Perfection is a feeling; you'll know it if you've ever questioned the competency of your penmanship before writing on the first page of a new notebook.
Louise Gornall
#81. For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness ... perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.
Kevyn Aucoin
#82. Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
Richelle Mead
#83. Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.
Lewis Mumford
#84. Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.
Joshua Reynolds
#85. Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#86. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Jacques Barzun
#89. This increasingly prevalent tendency for women in particular to think that "perfection" is possible from the perspective of their physique is an indication that many societies are caught up in obtaining some type of perfection for themselves.
Amy White
#90. You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Karen Salmansohn
#91. Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.
J.K. Rowling
#92. Perfection is overrated, boring. It's the imperfections--the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements--that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful . . . necessary.
Guy Harrison
#93. Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Brian Tracy
#94. People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
Tony Robbins
#95. God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#96. Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Leo Tolstoy
#97. Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
William Shawn
#99. Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
Vicki Baum
#100. I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.
Ne-Yo
