Quotes About Perfection Is Impossible

#1. Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

AnnaSophia Robb

#2. Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Leo Tolstoy

#4. 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

#5. Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.

Angela Watson

#6. 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

#7. Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

Chloe Thurlow

#8. People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

Mila Kunis

#9. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.

Emma Raveling

#10. An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Smith

#12. We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Margaret Halsey

#13. The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.

Ranjit Hoskote

#14. Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Mariah Nelson

#15. 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

#16. I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's impossible, I couldn't get myself to start.

Felicia Day

#17. When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

Alan Cohen

#18. Writers are not the crowd,they are the voice to the crowd.

Alloy Francis

#19. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#20. She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

Cecelia Ahern

#21. The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston S. Churchill

#22. Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#23. It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

Enrico Caruso

#24. Perfection is an impossible destination

Tim Ferriss

#25. If I want reality, I'll walk outside and breathe in the toxic air, dammit. I'll take a look at my own miserable life. If I read or watch a movie, I'd better get a fucking happily-ever-after.

C.M. Owens

#26. Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Anderson Silva

#27. Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish, once again, that we'd done things differently.

Gretchen Rubin

#28. It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.

Steve Toltz

#29. Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

Denise Austin

#30. Now I've given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don't care if I write a great book anymore, but just one which, whatever its flaws, will leave a record of my impossible life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#31. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#32. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

#33. My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Errol Flynn

#34. By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.

Eric Metaxas

#35. For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good.

Ernest Temple Thurston

#36. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. If I had the flag that Betsy Ross worked so hard on, I wouldn't destroy it. I'd put it up on EBay because it's gotta be worth some serious coin. And that is the American way.

Paul Provenza

#38. You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Morris West

#39. We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things.

T.J. Kirk

#40. Of my friends I am the only one left.

Terence

#41. Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

Michael Hyatt

#42. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

Fredrika Bremer

#43. THEIR ADULT CHILDREN ARE ECONOMICALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT.

Thomas J. Stanley