Monday 1 May 2017

Perfection Sayings and Quotes



Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.    

Vince Lombardi






Perfection is the child of time.    

Joseph Hall





Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan





The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.    

George Will





Perfection itself is imperfection.    

Vladimir Horowitz





If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy





Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.    

Antoine De Saint-Exupry






When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

George Fisher





The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.    

Stanley J. Randall





Always live up to your standards ? by lowering them, if necessary.    

Mignon McLaughlin





It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Robert Brault





I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch.

Terri Guillemets





To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.    

Dejan Stojanovic





It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.    

Joseph Addison






Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience.

Thomas Leroy





Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.    

Louis Auchincloss





Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.    

Voltaire





Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.

Kelly Millar





Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.    

Burk Hudson





Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough ? that we should try again.    

Julia Cameron





To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.    

Monica Fairview





Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.    

Salvador Dali





The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde





Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way...    

Paul Arden





Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Kevyn Aucoin





If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.    

William Fowble





Perfection doesn't exist in anyone. Striving for perfection in any part of our lives is a recipe for failure, since it can never be attained.

Dr. John Grohol





It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Samuel Johnson





Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.    

Joseph Campbell





Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham




Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.    

Angelique Arnauld






Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.    

Paul Acquasanta





Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.    

W. Somerset Maugham





Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

Sylvia Plath





Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.    

David D. Burns





Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Douglas Horton





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

Joseph B. Wirthlin





So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.    

Beatrice Potter Webb





Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.    

William Ellery Channing





No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.    

William Hazlitt





Perfection is an undiscovered jewel.    

Edward Counsel





Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.    

Frank Herbert





A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.    

Haruki Murakami





Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.    

Owen Feltham







We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.    

Fernando Pessoa





The thing about perfection is it's unknowable. It's impossible. But it's always right in front of you.    

Kevin Flynn





The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.    

Dante Alighieri





Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.    

Anne Lamott





The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.    

Confucius





The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.    

Matthew Arnold

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