Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing quite new is perfect.

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 Jackson

A perfectionist has to take his time,

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.

Mark Twain

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Nikki Sixx

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

John Green

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

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.

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.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Milan Kundera

There is no perfection only life

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

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.

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.

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.

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.