Perfection Quotes

...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.He walked o...

I am not strong on perfection.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state con...

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate d...

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accu...

Perfection is the child of time.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician...

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause ...

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

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That'...

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in ...

If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between ...

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire a...

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have ...

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...

Truth is immortal error is mortal.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to Th...

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection i...

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ...

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and rend...

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

The essence of man is imperfection.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

The very pink of perfection.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be...

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for...

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out H...

Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and mu...

A good garden may have some weeds.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is t...

Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is nece...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and...

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn i...

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. Thi...

A good garden may have some weeds.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with ...

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, ...

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're a...

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're a...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the ...

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as...

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just ...

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's...

Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. B...

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

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.