Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keira Knightley

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

Kathy Freston

Wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.

Kathy Freston

The goal is progress, not perfection!

Katherine Jenkins

I am a perfectionist.

Keith Urban

There's no soul in perfection.

Kim Collins

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Ken Blanchard

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Seth Godin

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Socrates

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Noel Gallagher

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

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.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

May-Britt Moser

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Philip Sidney

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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.

Martha Stewart

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Margaret Fuller

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Michelangelo

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.