Perfection Quotes, Sayings about being Perfect

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age – Albert Einstein.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful – Alice Walker.

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.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes – Aristotle.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect – Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Come up to me with a doughnut or a bag of chips. That would be perfect – Emma Bunton.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target – George Fisher.

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

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week – George Patton.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline – George Patton.

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes – Haridas Chowdhary.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing – Harriet Braiker.

Perfectionism is slow death – Hugh Prather.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less – Jean De La Bruyere.

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

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up – Joseph Campbell.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch – Joseph Priestley.

Nobody’s perfect, its all about airbrushing – Julia Velotas.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood – Kahlil Gibran.

I had a picture-perfect childhood – Kelly Ripa.

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city – Lewis Mumford.

No-one is born with perfect eyebrow – Linda Evangelista.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from – Lin Yutang.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light – Matthew Arnold.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best – Max Beerbohm.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth – Oscar Wilde.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions – Pen Densham.

Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare – Rene Descartes.

Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence – Rosalynn Carter.

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation – Saint Augustine.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it – Salvador Dali.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways – Samuel McChord Crothers.

Done is better than perfect – Scott Allen.

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

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect – Ted Turner.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect – Vincent T Lombardi.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time – Voltaire.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves – William Davenant.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection – William Faulkner.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect – William Safire.

Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment – William Shakespeare.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds – Wilt Chamberlain.

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