Perfection Quotes · Page 42

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

— Henry David Thoreau

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

— Abbas ibn Firnas

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

— John Ruskin

Nobody's perfect, they only one that ever was, was crucified.

— Loretta Lynn

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

— Herbert Spencer

“Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature…

— John Ruskin

I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your…

— Hubert de Givenchy

I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's…

— Laurie Simmons

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive…

— Jessie Matthews

The bottom line is that I'm not putting my life at risk in my quest for perfection. However, I 'm not endorsing…

— Sherlyn Chopra

Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each…

— Joel Osteen

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

— Anonymous

My go-to is a red lip. It's a timeless fashion statement, and I've loved doing it ever since I was little. My…

— Gracie Gold

“It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not…

— Ben Greenman

It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold…

— Herbert Spencer

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants,…

— Alber Elbaz

As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing…

— Michael J Cohen

“This increasingly prevalent tendency for women in particular to think that “perfection” is possible from the perspective of their physique is an…

— Amy White

Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor…

— Frederick Lenz

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn…

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Julianne Moore

“Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.”

— Eric Weiner

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

— Lisa Gerrard

“A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of”

— Rosemarie Yusen

“If only you’d stop thinking there’s such a thing as perfect, then you’d feel a lot better about yourself.”

— A.S. King

I will hold myself to a standard of GRACE, not perfection.

— Anonymous

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

— Andy Hargreaves

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

— Walter Isaacson

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

— Connor Franta

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

— Giuseppe Verdi

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

— Charlie Trotter

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

— Red Smith

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

— Swami Vivekananda

No one is perfect but those who know how to use properly their imperfections.

— Senoraroy

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

— Anonymous

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

— Kathie Lee Gifford