Perfection Quotes

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

Love is the bond of perfection.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Don't let perfection become procrastination . Do it now.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

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

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

Excellence always sells.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.