Perfection Quotes

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

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

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I am not strong on perfection.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

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

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Perfection itself is imperfection.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

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

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

Perfection is the child of time.