Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Rawls

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

Louise Erdrich

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

Henry Fuseli

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Friedrich Schiller

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Jon Landau

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Luc de Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lupita Nyong'o

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Orson Scott Card

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Randy Bachman

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

Tammin Sursok

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection is always infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection can never be attained by work.

Swami Vivekananda

Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

Swami Vivekananda

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

Swami Vivekananda

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Swami Vivekananda

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Rosalynn Carter

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Saint Francis de Sales

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Richelle Mead

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Richard Bach

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Thomas S. Monson

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.