Perfection Quotes
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C. S. Lewis
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In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
Abbi Glines
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
Oswald Chambers
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Lewis Safir
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The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
Marvin J. Ashton
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The end was present in the beginning and the beginning in the end, so that there was neither beginning nor end but only the perfection of the whole. Life had come round full circle, and the aging man that he was admitted it not with weariness but with a welling up within him of refreshment that was like the welling up of youth.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Perfection is the enemy of the good when it comes to emergency management.
Michael Ryan
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I feel very lucky for that gift that I was given but it´s been quite tough to deal with sometimes too. When you are blessed with something like this and it brings emotions to people - to keep up to the magical standard that everybody wants it to be and the perfection - can be hard.
Sarah Brightman
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Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.
Nalini Singh
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
Ed Parker
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The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.
Confucius
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
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'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
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I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can.
Lewis Hamilton
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Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
Benedict of Nursia
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Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.
Baird T. Spalding
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar Wilde
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Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.
Okakura Kakuzo
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Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
Angela of Foligno
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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.
Meredith Vieira