Perfection Quotes

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I'm chasing perfection.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

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

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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