Perfection Quotes
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.La Bruyere
The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.Woodrow Wilson
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.William Law
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.Logan Pearsall Smith
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
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)
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
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
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
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.Charles de Gaulle
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.Wallace Stevens
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.Sidney Poitie
Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.Michelangelo Buonarroti
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults - Yet faults tear away the perfection in you.Mary Ross
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.Saint Augustine
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.Harriet Braike
Perfection is the enemy of the good.Gustave Flaubert
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
