Perfection Quotes

2101 Perfection quotes by 1319 unique authors

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops. — William Shawn
And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient. — Edward Coke
Meandering leads to perfection. — Laozi
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea. — G. M. Trevelyan
If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still… — Frederic Chopin
You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are… — Bernie Siegel
We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its… — W. E. B. Du Bois
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. — Bliss Carman
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity… — Ralph Adams Cram
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach… — Robert Breault
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann… — Olive Ann Burns
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to… — Vincent de Paul
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor… — Vincent de Paul
In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad,… — Louise Erdrich
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski
I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night.… — Story Musgrave
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. — Alfred Adler
I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me. — Martina Navratilova
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality… — Swami Vivekananda
There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. — Doug Marlette

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