Perfection Quotes
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Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
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Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
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Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now.
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
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He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.
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Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
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What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence.
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.
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In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.
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Perfection can be a fetish.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
