Perfection Quotes
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.
Mila Kunis
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Richard Whately
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
George Bernard Shaw
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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
William Butler Yeats
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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
Francis Atterbury
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Perfection is the child of time…
Joseph Hall
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Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
William Law
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
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Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.
Anna Olson
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I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.
Mila Kunis
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I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.
Richard Krajicek
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So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
Haruki Murakami
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I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme.
Evan Davis
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The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.
George Will
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If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.
Elvin Jones
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Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples
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The course is perfection and it asks perfection.
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
Benjamin Rush
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
John Calvin
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Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A man's perfection is his work.
Thomas Carlyle