Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Willie Garson

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

Tullian Tchividjian

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Wayne Dyer

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Louise Erdrich

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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.

Henry Fuseli

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Friedrich Schiller

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Jon Landau

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Luc de Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lupita Nyong'o

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Emily Carr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Jodi Picoult

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

John Green

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Kevin Flynn

The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time

Ken Goldberg

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Julia Cameron

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Patti Smith

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Patanjali

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Mary J. Blige

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Murray Rothbard

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

Keira Knightley

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

Kathy Freston

Wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.