Perfection Quotes

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

Geraldine Ferraro

Use what talents you have the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Angelique Arnauld

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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.

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Eugène Delacroix

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

The very pink of perfection.

Oliver Goldsmith

There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.

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

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

Ursula K. LeGuin

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

Anne Wilson Schaef

When everything has to be right something isn't.

The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

Winston Churchill

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Perfectionism is slow death.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

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.

Eugene Herrigel

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.

To try to be better is to be better.

Charlotte Cushman

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

Sparky Anderson

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Saint Augustine

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

William Faulkner

What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Christopher Fry

Angels can do no better.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

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.

Sir Laurence Olivier

The "C" students run the world.

Harry S. Truman

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

Ned Rorem

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

A finished person is a boring person.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred

You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Felix Frankfurter

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Alfred de Musset

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrice Potter Webb

The essence of man is imperfection.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

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

There is no perfection in humanity.

Samuel Montagne

Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.

Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

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