Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Nicolas Malebranche

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nicolas Cage

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Nick Faldo

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

John Wooden

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

John Ruskin

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Michael Gove

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Mia Wasikowska

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Mencius

All things are complete within ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Liz Phair

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Margaret Oliphant

All perfection is melancholy.

Michael Cunningham

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Erin Heatherton

Perfection is really boring!

Francis Bacon

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

George Washington

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

G. M. Trevelyan

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

George Soros

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

George Soros

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Fernando Pessoa

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Jewel

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Jerry Moran

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Jeff Bridges

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.