Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

Temple Grandin

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Shunryu Suzuki

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

Thomas a Kempis

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Talisa Soto

Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.

Lisa Gerrard

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Lindsay Lohan

No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Rabindranath Tagore

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Kobe Bryant

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Kobe Bryant

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

Kevin Keegan

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.

Katy Perry

Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection

Thomas Aquinas

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thia Megia

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

Therese of Lisieux

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Terry Tempest Williams

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Joyce Maynard

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Juliet Stevenson

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Paul von Hindenburg

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Joyce Meyer

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Louise Hay

My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy.

Jonathan Lethem

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Jonathan Horton

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Justin Timberlake

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

Emma Thompson

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Emma Watson

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

John Galsworthy

The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

John Milton

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.