Motivational Quotes

Perfection

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Perfection

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

Orwell, George

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Webb, Beatrice Potter

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Evert, Chris

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Wasiman, Friedrich

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Augustine, St.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Horney, Karen

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Michelle Burford

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

Hazlitt, William

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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Dr. David M. Burns

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

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

Burk Hudson

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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

Dali, Salvador

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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Billings, Josh

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Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

Yahl, J.

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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Arnauld, Angelique

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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

Proverb, English

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

Horton, Doug

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Perfection is the child of time.

Hall, Joseph

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Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

John Eliot, Ph.D.

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The nearest to perfection that most people come is when filling out an employment application.

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Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Bible

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

Updike, John

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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fisher, Geoffrey F.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.

Stephens, James

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It is no crime not to be perfect

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Epictetus

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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Will, George F.

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You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring.

Tina Fey

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Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

Dyer, Wayne

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All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isàthe higher achievement.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

Heston, Charlton

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If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Scott Berkun

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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.

Addison, Joseph

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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; donÆt limit it.

John Eliot, Ph.D.

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

Dante Alighieri

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Randall, Stanely J.

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