Top 100 To Perfection Quotes
#1. If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
Alan Chadwick
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment ... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
Steve Maraboli
#5. Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.
Seneca.
#6. One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Vernor Vinge
#7. Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.
Ed Parker
#8. My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles
#9. It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
Jacques Barzun
#10. Meandering leads to perfection.
Laozi
#11. I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
Mike Tyson
#12. Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection."
"It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter.
"Thank you," said Peter.
Jill Paton Walsh
#13. You're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect Mercedes. that's what the big bang proposes. that's what evolution teaches. That chaos gave rise to perfection. But we know it works the other way round don't we?
Laurence B. Brown
#14. According to Wesley, God's grace is like a seed planted in human beings. It is the power that leads them to seek God (prevenient grace); it is the power that saves them from sin (justifying grace); and it is the power that leads them to perfection (sanctifying grace).
H. Newton Malony
#15. The idea which ... shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
C.S. Lewis
#16. Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
Red Smith
#18. The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests.
George Santayana
#19. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#20. The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.
Gordon Ramsay
#21. Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
Mignon McLaughlin
#22. Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
Thomas Cole
#23. The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .
John C. Maxwell
#24. Catherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or
feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part
to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Hermann Hesse
#26. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
#27. She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.
Mary Balogh
#28. The perfect scenario is when you are living your dream, when you have found your gift and when you are working to bring it to perfection
Sunday Adelaja
#29. The goal of the soul is to return to perfection - to attain and maintain a connection to the 'All That Is' and live within this connection. The Serenity Healing Tools will show you the way.
Sharon Ellis
#31. I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.
Novak Djokovic
#32. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
Zhuangzi
#33. Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.
Wes Fesler
#34. Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.
Kelsang Gyatso
#35. A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
Dave Grohl
#36. 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
#37. desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection - indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring,
Peter Kreeft
#38. With Perfect Practice you are Paving your Path to Perfection.
Chris Sajnog
#39. The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
George Sarton
#40. He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
Dorothy Dunnett
#41. You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.
Hlovate
#42. I wasn't sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was silly, but I couldn't help it. Alexander Banks was the closest to perfection
that any guy could ever be.
Allison Van Diepen
#43. I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Agnes Martin
#44. What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#45. My broken heart had been taped and glued to perfection. And all of these things were gone.
They had to be gone so I could face the future and put him in the past.
Kylie Scott
#46. APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra
#47. Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#48. Simplicity is the key to beauty.
Clarity is the key to perfection.
David Nevue
#50. The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.
Jack Kerouac
#51. Just as an arrow smith shapes an arrow to perfection with fire, so does the wise man shape his mind.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#52. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.
Lauren DeStefano
#53. The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.
Mark Lawrence
#54. The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.
Brendan Brazier
#55. A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..
Paula Wall
#56. They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#58. Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. Grace is that ability; to face adversity and be at ease, to enter into the suffering world and help others without losing yourself in the process. It is to be true to your most essential nature, and produce something good from that. To have grace is as close as we may come to perfection.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#60. The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.
Philippe Petit
#61. He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
Collette West
#62. As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
Ada Lovelace
#63. Begin with perfecting your daily life. That's the way to perfection.
Sri M
#64. It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Pliny The Younger
#65. I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
Ali MacGraw
#66. Under Kate's tireless and frankly intrusive instruction, my legs and underarms are shaved to perfection, my eyebrows plucked, and I am buffed all over.
Anonymous
#67. A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!
Mehek Bassi
#68. Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.
David McCullough
#69. The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants.
Raymond Chandler
#70. Successful people have not spared time to achieve their dreams but have struggled to bring their Imaginations to perfection coupled with perfecting their skills at hand
Emma Kizito
#71. Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith
#72. We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
Saint Francis De Sales
#74. Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.
Marguerite De Navarre
#75. That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.
Virginia Woolf
#76. Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.
Muhammad
#77. You're already so close to perfection, but there are these occasional lapses . . .
Pepper Winters
#78. I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
Kevin A. Ford
#79. Mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.
Rita Williams-Garcia
#80. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.
Patrick Mendis
#81. he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.
Arthur C. Clarke
#82. Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
#84. Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
Benjamin Franklin
#85. For the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others that he dare send us;
Teresa Of Avila
#86. She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#87. It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
River Phoenix
#89. Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
Wallace D. Wattles
#90. People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
Temple Grandin
#91. Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith
#92. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Meister Eckhart
#93. We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
George Washington
#94. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
Laozi
#96. However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.
John Of The Cross
#97. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#98. She smiled brightly, and the sum of their entire relationship could be condensed into that exchange: two actors playing their parts to perfection. Sad that it took so long for him to finally see that.
Alessandra Torre
#99. How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
A.S. King
#100. Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
Pope John Paul II
