Quotes About Unattainable Perfection

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

Ralph Barton Perry

#2. 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

#3. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

Liza M. Wiemer

#4. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

#5. Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it's elusive and may be an illusion.

R.L. Griffin

#6. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

#7. Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

Peter Farb

#8. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.

Aimee Cohen

#10. The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

George Soros

#11. You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Bob Dylan

#12. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.

Brene Brown

#13. Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#14. Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#15. Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Brene Brown

#16. SCREW PERFECTION. Perfect is the archenemy of Better. Perfect is boring. Perfect is unattainable.

Fay Wolf

#17. Voltaire had once said that it was a good idea for a writer to live near an international frontier so that, if he angered powerful men, he could skip across the border and be safe. Voltaire

Salman Rushdie

#18. An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.

Thomas Paine

#19. Being brave isn't the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you.

Kara Taylor

#20. I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

Gregory Harrison

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

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

Peter Watts

#23. Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Lisa Genova

#24. Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Nocturnus Libertus

#25. The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

Casey Wilson

#26. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Sheryl Sandberg

#27. Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Ken Goldberg

#28. She abounds with lucious faults.

Quintilian

#29. When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

Shania Twain

#30. Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

Meredith Vieira

#31. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#32. As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

Junior Seau

#33. Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Nikki Sixx

#34. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi