Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calipari

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

John Calvin

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Garrison Keillor

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Ludacris

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.

Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Haruki Murakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Harlan Ellison

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Gordon Ramsay

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

John Dryden

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Dan Millman

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.