Perfection Quotes

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

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

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

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Thomas a Kempis

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.

John Updike

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Gustave Flaubert

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.

Thomas a Kempis

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 Faulkne

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

Francois Fenelon

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

George Will

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Joseph Addison

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

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

Sidney Poitie

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Burk Hudson

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

Saint Augustine

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings