Perfection Quotes

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out l...

A good garden may have some weeds.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even...

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where w...

Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves.This is precisely why you'...

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost pe...

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to...

... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eterna...

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are s...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect t...

...it takes great humility to find oneself unjustly condemned and be silent, and to do this is to im...

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wron...

A good garden may have some weeds.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good garden may have some weeds.

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of i...

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd pr...

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.

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

I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, ...

Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when V...

Jobs obsessed over every aspect of the new building, from the overall concept to the tiniest detail ...

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what desig...

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficu...

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disor...

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary,...

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benev...

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuo...

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! ...

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genu...

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to pos...

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, ...

My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglas...

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or betw...

A finished person is a boring person.

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side...

There is perfect love in Heaven!

And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us...

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or...

A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out...

...Is it an inspiring sight to see a man commit a heroic gesture, and then learn that he goes to vau...

His face was like a law of nature—a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high chee...

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a b...

You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you st...

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy...

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one...

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant ha...

One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was...

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i...

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore an...

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a pa...

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever ...

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go o...

Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy co...

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the...

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life ...

At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...

It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from...

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.