Perfection Quotes

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
-George Orwell

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
-Aristotle

"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?"
-Richard J. Daley

"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."
-Shana Alexander

"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; don't limit it."
-John Eliot, Ph.D.

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
-Michael J. Fox

"I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson [Carson Daly] can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can."
-Tara Reid

"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
-Martha Graham

"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.

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

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor."
-Anne Lamott

"Done is better than perfect."
-Scott Allen

"Perfectionism is slow death."
-Hugh Prather

"Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure."
-White Eagle

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."
-Barbra Streisand

"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them."
-Owen Felltham

"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."
-Burk Hudson

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
-Saint Francis de Sales

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."
-Dr. David M. Burns

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute."
-William Shakespeare

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
-William Faulkner

"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
-Edmund Burke

"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
-Colin Powell

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
-Henri Frederic Amiel

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."
-Salvador Dali