Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrison Keillor

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

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.

Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

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.

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.

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.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.

Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

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.

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.

Bertrand Russell

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization.

Gretchen Rubin

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Giuseppe Verdi

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Herman Melville

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Henry David Thoreau

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.