Quotes About Seeking Perfection

#1. Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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

Semir Zeki

#3. 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

#4. Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. 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

#6. I paint the walls with his blood.

DMX

#7. Noon is a disguise of whiteness put on by the eternal Night behind it.

Gregory Maguire

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

Mark Twain

#11. All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared to my fifteen-year-old Volkswagen Beetle I'd bought off a friend, was as quiet as sitting at the bottom of a lake wearing earplugs.

Haruki Murakami

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!

Jennifer Young

#15. The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.

Zack Snyder

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

Abhijit Naskar

#17. THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.

Erik Larson

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

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Alan Brennert

#20. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself - and shall have until I leave them.

Beryl Markham

#21. Nepal will be a secular state - there is no other way.

Sushil Koirala

#22. Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor.
Picard

Gene Roddenberry

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

Jean Chretien

#24. 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

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

Jaron Lanier

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

Ralph Barton Perry

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

Naomi Novik

#28. I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

Patrick Bet-David

#29. Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Arielle Ford

#31. 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

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

Ben Hogan