Top 100 Quotes About Perfection
#1. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
#2. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it.
'Perfection
Steve Copland
#3. Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
Pythagoras
#4. You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!
Cupideros
#5. Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.
Ka Chinery
#6. Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.
Melina Marchetta
#7. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#8. What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
Friedrich Holderlin
#9. Stanford professor Jennifer Aaker's work shows that setting obtainable goals is key to happiness. Instead of perfection, we should aim for sustainable and fulfilling.
Sheryl Sandberg
#10. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you...
Oswald Chambers
#12. Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager
#13. Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
Emma Thompson
#14. All "favourable" Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.
George Orwell
#15. I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.
Joshua Roman
#16. I will control myself, or go inside.
I will not flaw perfection with my grief.
Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#17. You're welcome, you know." "For what?" Rhys paused less than a foot away, sliding his hands into his pockets. The night didn't seem to ripple from him here - and he appeared, despite his perfection, almost normal. "For saving you when asked." I
Sarah J. Maas
#18. Well, I am nothing like perfection." "You're better. You're you.
Jennifer Ashley
#19. Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.
O. Henry
#20. If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#21. What impressess me is that one bug... error... glitch.... just ruin the perfection of myself.
Deyth Banger
#22. If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
Frederic Chopin
#23. 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
#24. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
James Dobson
#25. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.
Jennifer Egan
#26. So,would you say I'm closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know - are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?
Rachel Vincent
#27. I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection.
Jon Lellenberg
#28. The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
Mark Twain
#29. Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Darynda Jones
#31. Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.
Steven Seagal
#32. The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection
You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle
("Tennis")
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
#33. Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#34. Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.
Rumi
#35. To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.
Nikola Tesla
#36. So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
Douglas Sirk
#37. Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner
#38. I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.
Agnes Martin
#39. 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
#40. Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.
Zelig Pliskin
#41. When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin
#42. Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Auguste Escoffier
#43. I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence. I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.
Steven D. Levitt
#44. Now there were plenty of words to describe the kind of rippling muscle perfection that greeted me. Jacked. Ripped. Built. Drool-worthy. Man candy. God damn! But the most appropriate seemed to be: holy fucking shit.
Jessica Gadziala
#45. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
Neil Gaiman
#46. The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
Kate Grenville
#47. Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
Questlove
#49. 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.
John Malkovich
#50. It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.
Subir Chowdhury
#51. Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.
Deborah Blake
#52. For those who talks about the perfection of god in making human ...
Its his success after billion years of experiments
out of millions of other useless creatures
Er.teji
#53. Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
Fernando Botero
#54. It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
John Locke
#55. Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.
Peter Danielson
#56. Ready to get fucked?" he asked. "Yes," she answered instantly. Christ. She was gone. Perfection. "Baby, gonna fuck you. Ready for that?" he pushed.
Anonymous
#57. There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Agnetha Faltskog
#58. The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.
Yamada Koun
#59. God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them.
He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you.
He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner.
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.
Max Lucado
#60. My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
#61. Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.
Lloyd Winter
#62. I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence.
Katia M. S.
Katia M. S.
#63. But it isn't about perfection, and it isn't about performance. You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
Shauna Niequist
#64. An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.
Pearl Zhu
#65. All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
John Cassian
#66. Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
Joan Lindsay
#67. If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
Jean Baudrillard
#68. Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
John Piper
#69. I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing.
Reese Witherspoon
#71. Lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
#72. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#73. Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be. Our
Teresa Of Avila
#74. We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.
James Frey
#75. The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
Radhanath Swami
#76. Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
Osho
#77. The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Thomas Berry
#79. [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.
Loren Eiseley
#80. We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#81. If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.
Frederick Lenz
#84. If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.
Wayne Dyer
#85. I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.
Mila Kunis
#86. Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
Lisa Genova
#87. I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection ... I will always be learning.
Conor McGregor
#88. Allow your life to unfold naturally Know that it too is a vessel of perfection Just as you breathe in and breathe out Sometimes you're ahead and other times behind Sometimes you're strong and other times weak Sometimes you're with people and other times alone
Lao-Tzu
#90. I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.
Ivan Doig
#91. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#92. My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
Neil Diamond
#93. The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
Richard Bach
#94. Perfection should never be your goal. Rather, let your goal be to make a difference, yet learning every step of the way.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#95. By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.
Parker J. Palmer
#96. What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Robert Browning
#97. For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Harry Knowles
#98. The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
Iamblichus
#99. A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
Walter Savage Landor
#100. Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.
Peter Watts
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