Top 100 Perfection Life Quotes
#1. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
Ann Aguirre
#2. Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.
Peter Prange
#3. In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.
Chloe Thurlow
#4. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Franz Grillparzer
#5. [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
#7. Don't try and perfect yourself for one person. Wait for the one who loves your imperfections and make you feel perfect.
Atul Purohit
#8. Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#9. Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
Dan Millman
#10. Summer
The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the warmest months of the year: June, July and August.
The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.
Cecelia Ahern
#11. You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.
Samantha Young
#12. 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
#13. Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
Pope John Paul II
#14. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
#15. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.
Shimon Peres
#16. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
#17. The secrets of success are persistence, patience, and perfection.
Debasish Mridha
#18. 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
#19. Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding.
James S. Fell
#20. A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!
Mehek Bassi
#21. Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.
Orna Ross
#22. We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
Max Lerner
#23. Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
Nia Peeples
#24. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.
Patrick Mendis
#25. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Richard Rolle
#26. That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.
Virginia Woolf
#27. A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."
Jonathan Horton
#28. The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
Thomas Aquinas
#29. The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process
George Bird Evans
#30. ... The Lord through His grace appeared to man, gave him the Gospel or eternal plan whereby he might rise above the carnal and selfish things of life and obtain spiritual perfection. But he must rise by his own efforts and he must walk by faith.
David O. McKay
#31. Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#32. One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood.
Fred Rogers
#33. Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.
Bryant McGill
#34. Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.
Joan D. Chittister
#35. Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis Auchincloss
#36. Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
Fernando Pessoa
#38. Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Jason E. Hodges
#39. You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life
Woody Allen
#41. Life -that complicated thing. One day, it took you to the perfection of happiness, with every meaning it might embrace. The other, it drove you to the limits of despair. The balance, however, was what made life either a paradise on earth, or a living hell.
Mariam Maarouf
#42. We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.
Bryant McGill
#43. Life is not about perfection. It's about persistence.
Natalie Wright
#44. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#45. The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.
Joy Browne
#47. If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#48. I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
Ali MacGraw
#49. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
#50. Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.
Dan Millman
#51. Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.
Neale Donald Walsch
#52. Begin with perfecting your daily life. That's the way to perfection.
Sri M
#55. Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
Henry Rollins
#56. Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.
A.J. Darkholme
#57. My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
Aleatha Romig
#59. Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.
Arianna Huffington
#60. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.
Jordan Mak
#61. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#64. I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
Daniel Boulud
#65. Life is about connection, not perfection.
Luke Taylor
#66. And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.
Rachel Van Dyken
#68. Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
Haruki Murakami
#69. Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
Agatha Christie
#70. Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.
Martin R. Lemieux
#71. Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
Eric Weiner
#72. The comfort of certainty and perfection vs. the fear of uncertainty and being suboptimal. This is the struggle.
Let me let you in on a secret: no one is free from this struggle.
Leo Babauta
#73. Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.
Lorraine Heath
#74. Japan. Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. Commit it to memory and make good use of it. Because if I come home and you're still pining over this little girl without having given her a chance, I will call you a chicken shit for the rest of your life.
Melina Marchetta
#76. Nothing in life has any business being perfect.
James Goldman
#77. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
#78. Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit
Paul Travis
#79. What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven.
Phil Mitchell
#80. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#81. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.
Paulo Coelho
#82. I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.
John Shelby Spong
#83. The true end of life is not mere existence, not pleasure, not fame, not wealth. The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
David O. McKay
#84. Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order ... perfection, prosperity and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#85. Perfecting is a journey ... There is no destination called perfection.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#86. This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Richard Baxter
#87. It is clear to you, I know, Lucilius, that no one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable.
Seneca.
#88. Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.
Debasish Mridha
#89. [T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.
H.G.Wells
#90. 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
#91. Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.
Roger Ebert
#92. And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . - JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted
Carole Radziwill
#93. You don't have to be perfect to have the perfect life.
Jewel E. Ann
#94. When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay.
David W. Earle
#95. I tried to make my life colorful with Red, Green and Blue ... ohh god ... my perfection in blending made it white !!!
Saket Assertive
#96. He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God's perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.
Michael Puttonen
#97. I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.
Patterson Hood
#98. Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment ... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
Chris Boucher
#100. Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Brian Tracy
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