Perfection Quotes

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

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

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

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