Top 100 Perfection Is The Quotes
#2. Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
Sophie Swetchine
#3. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
J.G. Holland
#4. You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs
#5. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.
Ernest Becker
#6. The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order ... is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#7. A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
Stan Brakhage
#8. It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
#9. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
Hermann Hesse
#11. Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.
Chloe Thurlow
#12. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
Ilyas Kassam
#13. Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.
Jay Crownover
#15. The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
Richard Rohr
#16. The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#17. Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
Wallace D. Wattles
#18. The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality ... was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil ... This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands ...
Joseph Campbell
#19. Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.
Vincent De Paul
#20. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!
G.A. Aiken
#21. The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
Joseph Campbell
#22. One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.
Oli Anderson
#23. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer
#24. Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.
Cory Doctorow
#25. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
#26. The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.
Brian McGrory
#27. Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
#28. But living creatures are idiosyncratic. They are created in such a way that they can actualize only what their microscopic minds wish for. The concept of limitless is bound heavily by the minor actualization of what perfection is ...
Lionel Suggs
#29. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Meister Eckhart
#30. 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
#31. I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.
John Battelle
#32. Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.
Saint Francis De Sales
#34. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
#35. It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Thomas Aquinas
#36. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
#37. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...
Tad Williams
#38. Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
Joseph Campbell
#39. In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.
T. E. Hulme
#40. Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
William Blake
#41. To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.
Swami Vivekananda
#42. The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.
Sheila Walsh
#43. It's not perfect, but nothing is perfect except for an idea of something," he goes on, "And if we aren't experiencing the world and all we do is think about our idea of the world, then why bother with any of it?
Autumn Doughton
#44. Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
Mark Crispin Miller
#45. To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Charles Baxter
#47. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.
Henry Petroski
#48. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#49. Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through a countless series of poses. Perfection of movement is achieved through the flow of perfectly rehearsed poses.
Nicholas Romanov
#51. The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is ... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#52. I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.
Carol Bartz
#53. The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.
Asti Hustvedt
#54. I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.
Julie Murphy
#55. Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of modern times has proved that nations even under the present conditions are susceptible.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#56. ...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
#57. Whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.
John Cassian
#58. The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13.
Chuck Wendig
#59. Here learn the science of the Saints: All is to be found in the passion of Jesus. Make every effort to remain hidden in the wounds of Jesus, and you will be enriched with every good and every true light, enabling you to fly to that Perfection which is consonant with your way of life.
Paul Of The Cross
#60. Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
Hermann Hesse
#61. Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.
Robert Kirkman
#62. What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.
Frederick Lenz
#63. There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
Tullian Tchividjian
#64. When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
Gary Zukav
#65. O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.
Thomas A Kempis
#66. The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.
Pope John XXIII
#67. In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
Louise Erdrich
#68. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
#69. The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
Luis Figo
#70. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.
Patricia Hickman
#72. Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie,
Gretchen Rubin
#73. Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
Philippe Petit
#75. What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.
Semir Zeki
#76. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire
#77. It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.
Frederick Lenz
#78. The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?
Mason Cooley
#79. We need Christians who don't try to match God's words to their experience, but rather, whose experience is corrected, elevated, and altered by the Word's penetrating perfection.
Eric Ludy
#80. I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Anne Hathaway
#81. The only perfection available to you without compromise is that of intention and effort. If you endeavor to be the best pencil sharpener you can be, and tailor your actions accordingly, you can be certain all else will be forgiven in the final accounting.
David Rees
#82. Screw what Mom and Dad think. Screw the rest of the town. Screw perfection. This girl is mine.
Katie McGarry
#83. Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred De Musset
#84. Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe ... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
David D. Burns
#85. The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.
Voltaire
#86. The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
#87. 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
#88. It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
Sarah Dessen
#89. It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
William Shakespeare
#90. I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.
Ayana Mathis
#91. When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The
Bruce Lee
#92. The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Plato
#93. To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.
Richard Sennett
#94. Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
James Stephens
#95. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence.
Carl Jung
#97. It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin
#98. Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
A.B. Simpson
#99. Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by the civilized man.
Joseph Conrad
#100. Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.
Stewart Cink
