Perfection Seeking Quotes

#1. Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

#2. After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Charlie Gonzalez

#3. It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid growth of superstition. It's time the ghosts, or whatever you call them, took over and began a rule of fear, They'd be no worse than men.' ("Smoke Ghost")

Fritz Leiber

#4. What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

Semir Zeki

#5. 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

#6. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

#7. That got me thinking about the pressure we women and moms are all under these days. It seems as if the standards are so much higher than they were just a few years ago, mainly because of what we see whenever we look on the Internet.

Joanna Gaines

#8. Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .

Sameh Elsayed

#10. Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

Hermann Hesse

#11. What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

#12. Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. The human person finds his perfection in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Alan Brennert

#16. The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.

Hans Fritzsche

#17. Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

Keith Rabois

#18. I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Jean Chretien

#19. Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.

Hermann Hesse

#21. Bike lane: the section of the road that accommodates wide loads and has speed bumps to protect drunk drivers.

Bauvard

#22. The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Sushmita Banerjee

#23. I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Jaron Lanier

#24. I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.

Maya Banks

#25. A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

Ralph Barton Perry

#26. There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste,

Naomi Novik

#27. Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

Arielle Ford

#28. What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you.

Sylvia Plachy

#29. Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall look, but they shall be to me like chairs, or tables. Not that I intend to sit, of course, or eat off them, but in the sense that they are but furniture.

Anne Fortier

#30. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

Ben Hogan